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  • From: "Parker, David X" <dmp31526 AT glaxowellcome.com>
  • To: "'Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/'" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [internetworkers] Sinclair Broadcasting - Pro or Con -Fellati o?
  • Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 11:54:21 -0400

What I hate is that they do "news" stories about their own shows. I really
don't watch the news to find out what's going on with those boys in One Tree
Hill.

- Dave P.

> ----------
> From: matusiak
> Reply To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 11:50 AM
> To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Sinclair Broadcasting - Pro or Con
> -Fellatio?
>
> Sinclair Broadcast Group just represents good 'ol American moralistic
> and pro-capitalism values. What are you -- a communist?? :)
>
> http://www.observer.com/pages/story.asp?ID=9001
>
> "Owning and operating dozens of local TV stations from its headquarters
> in Baltimore, this Sinclair outfit is regarded within the broadcasting
> industry as so extreme that Fox News Channel seems fair and balanced by
> comparison."
>
> ...
>
> "In the ominously named News Central feed that the company provides
> nightly to its 62 stations, scripts and studios are designed to create
> the illusion that the national broadcast originates locally. From
> hundreds of miles away, the local anchor in Madison or Minneapolis will
> ask the Sinclair weatherman, who is actually in a Baltimore suburb,
> whether to bring an umbrella tomorrow, pretending they're in the same
> studio. Marty Haag, a professor of journalism at Southern Methodist
> University who has studied Sinclair's methods, calls them "simply,
> purely deceptive."
>
> ...
>
> "Indeed, the Smiths of Sinclair embody several of the most typical
> characteristics of their ideological cohort-including the delightful
> twist of moralizing hypocrisy. For example, Mr. Smith, the chief
> executive and married father of two, was busted in a company car
> several years ago while cavorting with a professional woman of
> pleasure. (At the moment when the police intervened, she was reportedly
> performing the same kind of oral endearments that outraged Republicans
> when Monica Lewinsky did them for free.)"
>
> On Oct 11, 2004, at 10:59 AM, Diana Duncan wrote:
>
> > I just sent the following message to the programming department at WB
> > 22 - http://www.wlfl22.com/raleigh_nc/
> >
> > "I read in today's paper that you are being forced to run an
> > anti-Kerry documentary next week. I'm a fan of WB programming
> > (especially Charmed, Jack & Bobby, Smallville) but am incensed by this
> > cooption of the political process. I'll be regretfully boycotting
> > your station until after the election and will be encouraging all my
> > friends to do likewise."
> >
> > I would include the link to the article from the N&O, but they don't
> > have permission to publish it on their website. The link at the
> > Washington Post is
> > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22788-2004Oct10.html
> > I guess you have to be registered there.
> >
> > Diana
>
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