Society, Issues, Business, Allegedly Unethical Firms, Sinclair Broadcast Group
- States a pair of biased partisan's past behavior confirms their critics' worst suspicions - that Sinclair executives manipulated the company's broadcasting for their own gain, contrary to standard corporate practice, and that an anti-John Kerry film they
- Despite the outcry from consumers, lawmakers, advertisers, press experts and media watchdog groups, SBG still airs a political attack show as "news" a week before the November 2004 election.
- Aims to halt the Sinclair Broadcast Group from forcing all its affiliates to preempt regular network broadcasts to air an anti-Kerry documentary just before the 2004 election.
- Report on Sinclair purporting "news items that deserve public attention" and often giving extremely slanted and one-sided attack pieces.
- The Washington bureau chief for Sinclair says he was fired after he criticized the company's plans to produce a news program based on a documentary critical of John Kerry's Vietnam-era anti-war activities.
- A centralized source for the boycott of SBG's advertisers, as well as related news and developments.
- Asserts that as George Orwell warned in his book 1984, the actions of Sinclair portray a chilling direction that the US media is headed in.
- A Massachusetts-based nonprofit group files a petition with the Federal Communications Commission challenging the license renewal applications for television stations owned by SBG.
- In an unprecedented move, Sinclair attempts to influence the 2004 presidential election by ordering its stations to preempt regular prime-time broadcasts to air an anti-John Kerry film.
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