An email Clever Husband sent to Sinclair Broadcasting

[Jane Austin]

after Common Cause wrote him urging that he e-mail David Smith to insist that Sinclair air Nightline. He changed their stock message to the following:

DON'T Air Nightline tonight! Repugnant and anti-American as your actions are, they may serve the more important goal of awakening citizens of this country to the clear, present and immediate danger of partisan censorship by media conglomerates such as yours.

Keep at it, suckers, and you may single-handedly undo all the
favorable legislation that your industry's millions of dollars of
campaign contributions have purchased.

[Lex]

1. Hee hee

Go hubby!

[revcarol]

2. And he scores....

A KNOCKOUT IN THE FIRST ROUND.

[Jane Austin]

6. I'll tell him

you said that!

[PROGRESSIVE1]

3. They just may. I hope that John Kerry's Justice Department....

targets Clear Channel, Newscorp, Salem Communications, and Sinclair for their actions!

[readmylips]

4. One of the TV (Fox) stations just said....

that Koppel was doing it to get ratings for his failing NBC/CBS(?) channel. He even said that CNN should be doing the honors to the soldiers, because it would be more believable.

What is this media coming to or already is...Nazi for sure.

[nostamj]

8. Koppel is ABC n/t

[buddy22600]

5. Just curious, isn't censorship

when the government dictates what cannot be aired?

And if a corporation chooses not to air something because of their personal, political, religeous, or business beliefs, how is that then censorship?

[Bluzmann57]

10. Censorship is when someone decides what is right or wrong

not neccesarily the government. For example, several years ago, Wal-Mart decided that a line out of a Sheryl Crow song wasn't right for cd's sold in their stores. The line was, "Look at our children, killing themselves with guns they bought from Wal-Mart". Since Wal-Mart is a HUGE seller of recorded music in the USA, they informed her label that they would not sell any of her records which contained that line. There are other instances, particularly with Wal-Mart, but the point is, censorship isn'r always a Government thing.

[G_j]

11. you can call it Fascism if you like

"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism
as it is a merge of state and corporate power."

-Benito Mussolini

[Jane Austin]

13. Perhaps "supression"

would have been a better word.

[0rganism]

17. Nope, doesn't have to be a government

dictionary.com gives
cen·sor n.
1. A person authorized to examine books, films, or other material and to remove or suppress what is considered morally, politically, or otherwise objectionable.
2. An official, as in the armed forces, who examines personal mail and official dispatches to remove information considered secret or a risk to security.
3. One that condemns or censures.
4. One of two officials in ancient Rome responsible for taking the public census and supervising public behavior and morals.
5. (Psychology) The agent in the unconscious that is responsible for censorship.

tr.v. cen·sored, cen·sor·ing, cen·sors
To examine and expurgate.

Wordnet:
censor
n : a person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence or to watch theatrical performances and suppress in whole or in part anything considered obscene or politically unacceptable
v 1: forbid the public distribution of; as of movies or newspapers
2: subject to political, religious, or moral censorship; "This magazine is censored by the government"

(notice, in the example, "by the government" has to be specified, as it could just as easily be "by the church" or "by the publisher")

[SemperEadem]

18. The media is the state

or haven't you noticed?

[blm]

7. Heheh...priceless.

.

[KharmaTrain]

9. Now Would Sinclair Turn Down A Kerry Buy???

I posted in a thread earlier there are some very disgruntled Sinclair stockholders ready to dump their shares that would hurt the company that lives on borrowed money to pay the high debts they've run up in buying up every competitor in sight. Smith, the fool, thinks all his investors are Fatass Repugnicans like he is...he's about to learn different in the pocketbook. There's how you do it right! Sadly you won't hear about it in the media...no sex, no drugs and involves fuzzy math.

Definitely one priority for a Kerry administration is the overhauling of the FCC...re-establishing it as a regulatory agency, not one that sells broadcast frequencies to the highest bidder and is a wholely owned subsidiary of the NAB.

[buddy22600]

12. what the heck is the NAB?

[Jane Austin]

14. National Ass'n of Broadcasters

n/t

[KharmaTrain]

16. National Association Of Broadcasters...

the major lobbying organization dominated by Cheap Channel that all but controls everything the FCC and the House Telecom Committee does.

At one time it really did good things...but then came Raygun.

[Zinfandel]

15. If you want to email David D Smith (Sinclair Broadcast Group)

David D. Smith, president and chief executive officer of Sinclair Broadcast Group, was arrested this week in his hometown of Baltimore and charged with a misdemeanor sex offense. Sinclair owns WPGH, the Fox affiliate in Pittsburgh, and programs most of WPTT.
http://www.atrios.blogspot.com/2004_04_25_atrios_archive.html#108335351404593578

I receive an email from "FAIR" which assured everyone the emails sent would get to the right-wing pig, David D Smith of Sinclair Broadcast Group


[e-mail]

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

19. Love the screen name. I just got back where I saw the "real"

Jane AusTEN's burial place at Winchester cathedral, and her old home in Chawton where basically all her books were completed and published from. It has a small museum which was unfortunately closed. The museum contains a patchwork quilt made by Jane and her sisters containing various treasured items from friends and family that I really, really wanted to see. Next trip.

[Jane Austin]

20. That sounds like a fun trip!

We did a sort of Dickens tour of Kent one year and relived all our favorite novels. It was lots of fun.

Now, what kind of dog is that in your picture?

[imax2268]

21. NICE...!!!!!

:bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce:

[MrPrax]

22. Wow!!!

Email your Media and DEMAND they show MORE war dead!!

Go a little farther and tell them they are cowards, traitors...and worst they are part of the 'left wing media conspiracy'!!!

That'll teach them!! How dare they ignore their TV viewers who WANT to see war dead honored as Heroes and honored citizens!!

It's a great strategy to build up the war talk as a hallowed Experience to be Shared by the Whole Nation...

Demand that Partisanship be set aside in these terrible times as we struggle to bring freedom to all people of the world and let our Heroes be remembered as those that paid the ulitmate price in the 'war on terrorism'

God Bless