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Thread #74438   Message #1299444
Posted By: Genie
18-Oct-04 - 12:54 AM
Thread Name: BS: Swift Boat for Truth Sunk!
Subject: RE: BS: Swift Boat for Truth Sunk!
Yes, Frank, Sinclair -- the company that would not allow any of their stations to air the ABC Nighline episode where Koppel showed the names of the US soldiers killed in Iraq because it was "too political" and inappropriate so close to the election -- is frocing all its stations to cancel prime time programming to air the 90-minute "news" broadcast "Stolen Honor." Michael (?) Powell, head of the FCC, has said he sees no violation of FCC regulations in this.

Sinclair claims that they will allow someone to represent the Kerry campaign the same night after they air "Stolen Honor." (Somehow I doubt that they'll also show "Going Up River.")
They "invited" Kerry to come on the show, but you can imagine what that would be like (aside from the fact that it would take him away from campaigning at a critical time and force him to focus on stuff that happened 33 years ago). It remains to be seen who and what they will allow to be presented as "the other side," but for some inexplicable reason I don't have much confidence in their "fairness."