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["Parker, David X" <dmp31526 AT glaxowellcome.com>]

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.

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> 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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