Baltimore Sun: Sinclair softens its tone a notch (not shown locally)

[displacedtexan]

Isn't it strange that Sinclair didn't run this piece of crap in Baltimore last night?
Could it be because Baltimore is 80% Dems?
Hm.

Here's the Sun's Media critic's take on the program:

Sinclair softens its tone a notch

Program on Kerry gestures at balance while tilting to right

By David Zurawik
Sun Television Critic
Originally published October 23, 2004
The one thing that can be said with certainty about A POW Story: Politics, Pressure and the Media, a special report from the Sinclair Broadcast Group, is that there was nothing in the program as aired last night worth all the pyrotechnics that proceeded it the last two weeks.

This was not a program worth risking stockholder earnings or firing a respected journalist, as Sinclair did this week. The show seemed more an attempt by Sinclair to dig its way out of controversy than an examination of the Vietnam War record and anti-war protests of Democrat John Kerry, as promised.

In an opening statement, anchorman Jeff Barnd tried to cast Sinclair as a victim of those who would deny the broadcast company basic First Amendment rights. "It boils down to a fight over the First Amendment," Barnd said. "Some people are trying to suppress the rights of free speech."

He attempted to create the sense that Democrats in Congress, Kerry's campaign attorneys and others in government were trying to keep Sinclair from airing the show - all part of what Barnd called "spin alley."

much more...
http://tinyurl.com/5w247

Soooooooo...
If this is such a big deal 1st amendment issue, why didn't these cowards air this program in their hometown?

[NJCher]

1. I loved this part!

This was not a program worth risking stockholder earnings or firing a respected journalist, as Sinclair did this week. The show seemed more an attempt by Sinclair to dig its way out of controversy than an examination of the Vietnam War record and anti-war protests of Democrat John Kerry, as promised.

Sinclair suffered some body blows.


Cher

[puddycat]

2. Fox WBFF in Baltimore DID show it!

[masshole]

3. Sinclair is now running "Thank You's"

for "all who showed their support of the First Amendment" regarding their airing of A POW Story. :puke:

What a bunch of fucktards.