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"William Sommerwerck" wrote:
due to letters and posts from the left sinclair will not be showing
thier right wing propaganda bit on JFK
Thanks guy
and thank You Don for posting the advertizer list I put to such good use
George
Not so. Sinclair will not be _requiring_ its stations to show it, and what
will
be shown will be excerpts, not the whole film.
I don't create the news
if you have more current updates feel free to post them
Sinclair Bows and Pulls Anti-Kerry Film
Threatened with a shareholder revolt, and facing the loss of advertiser
dollars and a viewer boycott, Sinclair Broadcast Group has dropped its
plan to air the anti-Kerry documentary 'Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never
Heal.'
Sinclair had been feeling the heat from all angles since ordering its
62 stations nationwide last week to preempt their regular programming
and run a commercial-free 'documentary' criticizing Democratic
presidential candidate John Kerry's anti-war activities during the
Vietnam War.
After word got out that Sinclair was forcing its 62 stations to air
'Stolen Honor' this week, advertisers quickly began pulling their ads
from Sinclair owned stations including Portland, Maine; Madison,
Wisconsin; and in Springfield and Minneapolis, Illinois.
Web logs and public-interest groups had called for boycotts and
threatened to challenge Sinclair's FCC licenses. Groups such as Common
Cause, the Alliance for Better Campaigns; Media Access Project; Media
for Democracy and the Office of Communication of the United Church of
Christ have been compiling a database listing of other advertisers on
Sinclair-owned stations in hopes to try and persuade them to reconsider
their commercials on the company's stations.
Since Sinclair's decision to air Stolen Honor became public in early
October, the company's stock has fallen nearly 13 percent, as of the
close of the market on October 18, wiping out nearly $90 million in
shareholder value, Media Matters for America reported.
This caused shareholders to put their own pressure on Sinclair.
Media Matters For America reported yesterday that Glickenhaus & Co., a
Wall Street investment firm holding 6,100 shares of Sinclair stock, took
action against Sinclair on behalf of its clients by firing off a letter
to Sinclair's CEO and directors, demanding that they immediately
'provide those with views opposed to the allegations in the film an
equal opportunity to respond.'
'We are not partisan. We are investors,' General partner Jim
Glickenhaus told MMFA. 'Sinclair's decision has caused harm to the value
of our investment in Sinclair. We believe Sinclair must give equal time
to an opposing point of view. Otherwise the company is placing its
future and the value of our investment in jeopardy, by putting the
renewal of its FCC licenses at risk, alienating local advertisers, and
opening itself up to libel suits against the company.'
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