Sinclair Broadcast Group (Allegedly Unethical Firms)

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Salon - Sleaze and Smear at Sinclair Salon - Sleaze and Smear at Sinclair: States a pair of biased partisan's past behavior confirms their critics' worst suspicions - that Sinclair executives manipulated the company's broadcasting for their own gain, contrary to standard corporate practice, and that an anti-John Kerry film they (Sinclair Broadcast Group) http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/10/22/sinclair/ FAIR - What Sinclair Doesn't Want You to See on Nightline FAIR - What Sinclair Doesn't Want You to See on Nightline: ABC's Nightline reads a list of U.S. soldiers who died in Iraq, yet Sinclair, which owns several ABC affiliates, refuses to air it under the pretext of political neutrality. From Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting. (Sinclair Broadcast Group) http://www.fair.org/activism/sinclair-nightline.html The Nation - Orwellian Twist on the Campaign The Nation - Orwellian Twist on the Campaign: Asserts that as George Orwell warned in his book 1984, the actions of Sinclair portray a chilling direction that the US media is headed in. (Sinclair Broadcast Group) http://www.thenation.com/thebeat/index.mhtml?bid=1&pid=1912 Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Sinclair Fires Washington Bureau Chief Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Sinclair Fires Washington Bureau Chief: The Washington bureau chief for Sinclair says he was fired after he criticized the company's plans to produce a news program based on a documentary critical of John Kerry's Vietnam-era anti-war activities. (Sinclair Broadcast Group) http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apelection_story.asp?category=1131&slug=Kerry%20Film%20Reporter Los Angeles Times - Group Challenges Sinclair Licenses Los Angeles Times - Group Challenges Sinclair Licenses: A Massachusetts-based nonprofit group files a petition with the Federal Communications Commission challenging the license renewal applications for television stations owned by SBG. (Sinclair Broadcast Group) http://www.latimes.com/news/yahoo/la-na-sinclair2nov02,1,1147575.story The Nation - Sinclair's Continued Charade The Nation - Sinclair's Continued Charade: Despite the outcry from consumers, lawmakers, advertisers, press experts and media watchdog groups, SBG still airs a political attack show as "news" a week before the November 2004 election. (Sinclair Broadcast Group) http://www.thenation.com/blogs/outrage?pid=1910 Media Matters - Sinclair's News Central Provides Steady Diet of Pro-Bush, Anti-Progressive News Items Media Matters - Sinclair's News Central Provides Steady Diet of Pro-Bush, Anti-Progressive News Items: Report on Sinclair purporting "news items that deserve public attention" and often giving extremely slanted and one-sided attack pieces. (Sinclair Broadcast Group) http://mediamatters.org/items/200411180001 Stop Sinclair Stop Sinclair: Aims to halt the Sinclair Broadcast Group from forcing all its affiliates to preempt regular network broadcasts to air an anti-Kerry documentary just before the 2004 election. (Sinclair Broadcast Group) http://www.stopsinclair.org/ Boycott Sinclair Broadcast Group Boycott Sinclair Broadcast Group: A centralized source for the boycott of SBG's advertisers, as well as related news and developments. (Sinclair Broadcast Group) http://www.boycottsbg.com/ FAIR - Sinclair's Partisan Ploy Cries Out for Equal Time FAIR - Sinclair's Partisan Ploy Cries Out for Equal Time: In an unprecedented move, Sinclair attempts to influence the 2004 presidential election by ordering its stations to preempt regular prime-time broadcasts to air an anti-John Kerry film. (Sinclair Broadcast Group) http://www.fair.org/activism/sinclair-stolen-honor.html