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(Mothers Opposed to Bush)

By now most of you have heard about the Sinclair Broadcasting plan to 
pre-empt normal programming and force it's 62 affiliates, many in key 
swing states,  to run an "attack" documentary on John Kerry-in 
cooperation with the Swift Boat Veterans for Hate. Sinclair vice 
president Mark Hyman said on a CNN interview that John Kerry and the 
Democrats are like "holocaust deniers" and that if the Sinclair stunt 
is an "in-kind donation to George Bush" then "every suicide bomb that 
goes off in Iraq is an in-kind donation to John Kerry." 
 
There are currently  6  very real and useful things you can do to 
stop this heinous effort.  First, a brief description of the 
situation: 
 
Sinclair Broadcasting, the largest owner of local television stations 
in the US, ordered its 62 stations to preempt regular programming to 
air an anti-Kerry documentary just a few days before the election.  
According to the company's webpage Sinclair's television group 
includes 20 FOX, 19 WB, 6 UPN, 8 ABC, 3 CBS, 4 NBC affiliates and 2 
independent stations and reaches approximately 24% of all U.S. 
television households.  In April, Sinclair communications corporate 
counsel decided to pull a special Nightline broadcast devoted to 
reading the names of those fallen in combat from their 8 ABC 
affiliates.Sinclair's mission is clear: sway the election in favor of 
an administration that lets companies like Sinclair get even bigger. 
It's great for Sinclair's bottom line - terrible for our democracy. 
This is not about 'liberal' or 'conservative.' It's about corruption, 
the threat to democratic discourse, and the manipulation of 
elections. 
Together, we can stop them. But we have to act now.   The good news 
is you can do all of the below in your pajamas. 
 1. Very effective!!  Boycott Sinclair Broadcast Group 
http://www.boycottsbg.com/default.htm. Call advertisers letting them 
know.   Go to  http://www.boycottsbg.com/advertisers/default.aspx   
and look up a swing state of your choice. Then call all the 
advertisers you can. It will only take a few minutes each call. How 
many calls would you be willing to make to take this horrible 
propaganda off the air? Remember, be polite! It's not the person 
answering the phone's fault about a decision made by their CEO. 

2. Contact local Sinclair affiliate stations in swing states and urge 
friends in Sinclair markets to do the same. 
http://www.stopsinclair.org/contact_sinclair.php

3. Take your investment $ out of Sinclair When a company puts 
politics over business, it loses stock value quickly. Since its plans 
were announced, Sinclair's share price has dropped by 11%. That means 
shareholders have lost $70,000,000 in just over a week.[2] Call your 
fund manager or broker now to ask if you own any Sinclair stock.  If 
you own a mutual fund go toe Media 
Mattershttp://mediamatters.org/items/200410130001

4. Sign the petition http://www.stopsinclair.org/. Currently there 
are 115,000 signatures as of Friday October 15th, 2004 2:07:38 PM EST 

5. Register your complaint with the FCC  
http://www.freepress.net/sinclair/dn.php?zip=87501

6. Pass on this email!! Forward it to everyone you know who cares 
about fairness in  democracy- esp. those in swing states. Encourage 
them to do the same. 

Thanks for all that you do.

Best,

Holly

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