Newsday: Sinclair show: Heat, little light

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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-ussinc234016709oct23,0,7280381.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-headlines

The one thing that can be said with certainty about "A POW Story: Politics, Pressure and the Media," a special report Friday night from the Sinclair Broadcast Group, is that there was nothing in the program worth all the media pyrotechnics that preceded it the past two weeks.
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In an opening statement, anchorman Jeff Barnd tried to cast Sinclair as a victim of those who would deny the broadcast group basic First Amendment rights of freedom of expression. But that was the big lie at the heart of the broadcast - that anyone was trying to keep Sinclair from doing a one-hour report about Kerry's war record. The controversy and outrage during the week was about Sinclair's original plan to force its 62 stations to carry an anti-Kerry exercise in propaganda, "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal," on the eve of the election.
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The report was also edited so that the anti-Kerry voices almost always had the last word.
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PS: Per Editor & Publisher, Newsday will endorse Kerry in tomorrow's editorial (See http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000682697)