my e-mail to the local ABC affiliate

[Bill McBlueState]

This is what I sent to WGGB-40 in Springfield, MA, one of the stations that's not showing Nightline. Feel free to use it for inspiration.

Your decision not to air Nightline tonight (Friday, April 30) is
unfortunate. Your parent company complains that broadcasting the
names and faces of the fallen Americans in Iraq is politically
motivated. But censoring the program because it may be politically
motivated is politics in its most crass form.

Massachusetts has a long tradition of freedom of expression and
progressive thought. The key issue for folks living here is not
whether the program is politically motivated; it's that some national
corporation, clearly out of touch with local Pioneer Valley sentiment,
has decided for us that we shouldn't watch the program.

You should carry Koppel's "Nightline" tonight. Censorship is never an
appropriate response to controversy. WGGB-40 is one of just a handful
of sources in the area for real local news, and it is disappointing to
see you fall victim to the Sinclair company's political scheming.

I will also be contacting the Sinclair Broadcast Group.

[Wetzelbill]

1. Good stuff

[xultar]

2. Here's my letter, it isn't as good but I am pissed so I ramble!

Subject: Your actions are disgusting and unamerican

How dare you take away our country’s ability to HONOR and GRIEVE for OUR TROOPS AS A NATION.

And you say you’re an American. And you say that Koppel has an agenda. It sounds like it is YOU who HAVE AN AGENDA!!!

Other Countries are allowed to honor their troops when they come home. They allow their nation to Grieve and Honor the dead. Yet, we as Americans are not allowed?

What you are doing is SICK and DISGUSTING. You are politicizing this war for the benefit of the Government. That sounds to me like you’re becoming what the TROOPS fought against in IRAQ. There was no Freedom of the Press in IRAQ, yet you are committing the same thing here.

I HATE YOU & I HATE WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

YOU ARE NOT AMERICAN!!!!

YOU ARE NOT A PATRIOT!!!!

YOU DO NOT SUPPORT THE TROOPS OR THEIR FAMILIES!!!!

WHAT YOU ARE DOING IS WRONG!!!!!

MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOUR SOULS!!!!!!

[fishnfla]

3. Even John McCain sent a letter

called them "unpatriotic'