[opendtv] Nightline being blacked out by Sinclair
- From: "GerryK" <gerryk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 09:49:42 -0700
URL:
http://www.washingtondispatch.com/page2/archives/000168.html
TWD Editor CK Rairden's take on politics around the nation.
Koppel's Nightline Blackout
The Sinclair Broadcast Group is the largest owner of television stations in
the country and has decided to stop their ABC affiliated stations from
running the 'tribute' of the reading of the names of the war dead in Iraq by
Ted Koppel on tonight's Nightline. A message on the company Website cites
the reasoning: "Despite the denials by a spokeswoman for the show, the
action appears to be motivated by a political agenda designed to undermine
the efforts of the United States in Iraq."
Sinclair has handed Koppel a Nightline Blackout.
Koppel's plan is apparently to read off a conveyor belt of names, and
Sinclair wants nothing to do with it. ABC should have no problem with this
as they did some banning of their own in September 2001. That's when ABC
News banned on air personnel from wearing flag pins on their lapels. The
Washington Post's Howard Kurtz reported this from ABC back in September
2001. "Especially in a time of national crisis, the most patriotic thing
journalists can do is to remain as objective as possible,' said ABC
spokesman Jeffrey Schneider. 'That does not mean journalists are not
patriots. All of us are at a time like this. But we cannot signal how we
feel about a cause, even a justified and just cause, through some sort of
outward symbol."
Wouldn't this be signaling the way they feel about the cause in Iraq through
some sort of outward symbol?"
Posted by CK Rairden at April 30, 2004 11:51 AM | TrackBack
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