In case you haven’t heard, the Sinclair Broadcast group, which owns about 60 television stations, is going to basically run an hour-long anti-Kerry program. Originally reports said they were simply going to run the anti-Kerry film “Stolen Honor”, but now they’ve expanded that to say it’s some sort of pseudo-news program about Kerry’s actions after he returned from Vietnam and protested the war.
Here’s the weird thing — people are sending me e-mails about this as if I have some connection withe Sinclair or some group opposing the broadcast. Messages that go like this,
Dear Brian,
Just want you to know that I do not support River City Toyota’s advertising on the local Sinclair Broadcast Group station (KMWB). I think the station is crossing the line from news stories to one-sided politically-charged “documentaries.” I think this programming needs to be balanced by the rest of the story. Scheduling the “documentary” on John Kerry at this time is a politically motivated move.
I assume that one of my evil twins — one of the number of other Brian Carnells in the United States — has said something about this and people are Googling my name and sending me e-mail.
So for the record, I have nothing to do with the Sinclair Group and don’t really have a problem with the broadcast they are planning — those who do, especially those in the Kerry campaign issuing threats, need to reread the First Amendment. Frankly, I almost never watch anything but cable stations anyway.
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