19th October, 2004
There’s something wrong with the world today
Sigh. Truly, it seems like the bullshit will never end. Avid GogBlog reader, Aficionada, sends word today of a petition to stop Sinclair Broadcast Group (owners of 62 television stations which reach almost 25% of all households in the US – many of them in swing states [NY Times link]) from forcing thier stations to air an anti-Kerry “documentary” (funded by arch-conservatives, natch) shortly before the election in November.
SBG has been guilty of pulling similar bullshit in the past, when they forced stations to not air a Nightline broadcast that read the names of 700 soldiers who had died in Iraq. Oh, and just in case you may think that the spineless weasels at SBG had any sort of class, they’ve now also fired their Washington Bureau Chief for calling a spade a spade and stating that the film was “biased political propaganda, with clear intentions to sway this election.”
When are we going to wake up and realize what is going on? This petition may not actually stop SBG from following through with their plans, but with already over 125,000 signatures it will at least bring this travesty to light. [Stop SBG Petition link] Please note that this petition closes on October 21.
[update] Jay Rosen has a roundup of this situation, including some information on SBG’s plans to begin buying newspapers in the same regions where they have broadcast stations. Is it just me or does this seem like a Bad Thing if it were to come to fruition? [via Dan Gillmor]
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19th October, 2004
Schism
Dan Gillmor points out a recently published piece by Hal Crowther. The article doesn’t necessarily bring to light anything about the Bush Administration for those of you who have been paying attention, but if there is any sort of doubt in your mind about who to vote for (or, as in my case, vote against) this November, you owe it to yourself to read this.
Question forever. Think for yourself.
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