[opendtv] Re: News: Dingell Warns Sinclair

Craig Birkmaier wrote:
> Dingell Warns Sinclair
> 
> By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 10/22/2004 3:06:00 PM
> 
> 
> Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) took one last shot Friday at putting 
> Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. on notice that some in the government 
> will be carefully watching its Kerry news special Friday night, at 
> least metaphorically (Sinclair doesn't have a D.C. outlet).
> 
> In a letter to Sinclair President David Smith, Dingell included a 
> copy of FCC Chairman Michael Powell's response to Dingell that the 
> FCC is "prepared to act [expeditiously] to determine compliance with 
> its rules and policies" once the program has aired." He did not add 
> that the FCC would, and could not, act without a complaint.
> 
>   Dingell had earlier asked the FCC to investigate whether the show 
> was in the public interest, but Powell had responded that the FCC was 
> not in the business of prior censorship and would have to wait until 
> it was broadcast and then respond quickly to any complaints.
> 
> Citing reports that the special is a one-sided attack on Kerry, 


blah blah blah

If they Democrats attack that show, they deserve to lose. All that
hpe about a political attack show against Kerry and what was it ...
an ordinary news show, mostly about how the Kerry forces
prejudged what it was going to be.

Doug McDonald

 
 
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