The power of blogs? Hmm lets see if they have teeth:
Remember the Sinclair Broadcast Group? Well the people at this network are planning on airing a piece of anti-Kerry propaganda the night before the election. Bloggers are saying fuck that! This is propaganda NOT NEWS and we will not stand for it! Bloggers have taken to calling companies that advertise on the Sinclair stations and saying we’re not going to buy your products when you advertise with these schmucks… Seems to be working. Hit them where it counts, the bottom line. Want to take action? Try here too… Contact the local companies that advertise with them and speak with the Sales Manager. Tell him/her how you aren’t going to buy your car from them anymore if they continue to advertise with Sinclair. Is this just rumors on the internets? No!
Will this be another victory for the blogosphere? More on this:
Or email Sinclair’s CEO: [email protected]
List of companies that advertise with Sinclair:
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What are other bigidybloggers sayin about this Sinclair Fiasco?
An FCC commissioner has already denounced this piece:
"FCC COMMISSIONER COPPS CRITICIZES SINCLAIR CORPORATE DECISION TO PREEMPT LOCAL STATIONS FOR POLITICAL BROADCAST
Commissioner Michael J. Copps reacted to reports that Sinclair Broadcast Group will preempt more than 60 local stations across the country to air an overtly political program in the days prior to the Presidential election.
Copps stated: “This is an abuse of the public trust. And it is proof positive of media consolidation run amok when one owner can use the public airwaves to blanket the country with its political ideology — whether liberal or conservative. Some will undoubtedly question if this is appropriate stewardship of the public airwaves. This is the same corporation that refused to air Nightline’s reading of our war dead in Iraq. It is the same corporation that short-shrifts local communities and local jobs by distance-casting news and weather from hundreds of miles away. It is a sad fact that the explicit public interest protections we once had to ensure balance continue to be weakened by the Federal Communications Commission while it allows media conglomerates to get even bigger. Sinclair, and the FCC, are taking us down a dangerous road.â€
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