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Tuesday, December 14, 2004

Putting the hurt on Sinclair! Again!

Check this out. After the triumph of the anti-Kerry documentary, some top-tier groups have decided to keep the squeeze on Sinclair Broadcasting. Time to start writing letters, folks.

This is from the LA Times. The link above will take you to the new site.

"A coalition of liberal political groups is launching a nationwide protest against Sinclair Broadcast Group, charging that the 62-station TV broadcaster, which was also the target of intense criticism during the presidential campaign, is misusing public airwaves with partisan news programming.

The groups, led by Media Matters for America, today will announce a campaign to pressure Sinclair's advertisers with letters. The groups, however, are stopping short of demanding an advertiser boycott.

The campaign is one of the first broad attempts to reenergize liberal political activists in the wake of the Democrats' electoral defeat in November. Others involved include MoveOn.org, Free Press, Campaign for America's Future, Working Assets, Alternet, MediaChannel, and filmmaker Robert Greenwald, who made "Outfoxed," a film released in the summer that alleged Republican bias at Fox News Channel.

The anti-Sinclair campaign will be run through a new website, SinclairAction.com."

UPDATE: Somehow the blog is managing to misprint my link, in spite of my attempts to correct it. Here's the site: www.sinclairaction.com.