[opendtv] Sinclair should be ashamed...
- From: Bill Sheppard <Bill.Sheppard@xxxxxxx>
- To: "OpenDTV (E-mail)" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 15:08:15 -0700
TV Group to Show Anti- Kerry Film on 62 Stations
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/11/politics/campaign/11film.html
Up to 62 television stations owned or managed by the Sinclair
Broadcasting Group - many of them in swing states - will show a
documentary highly critical of Senator John Kerry's
<http://www.nytimes.com/top/news/washington/campaign2004/candidates/johnfkerry/index.html?inline=nyt-per-pol>
antiwar activities 30 years ago within the next two weeks, Sinclair
officials said yesterday.
Those officials said the documentary would pre-empt regular night
programming, including prime time, on its stations, which include
affiliates for all six of the major broadcast networks in the swing
states of Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin, Nevada and Pennsylvania.
Called "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal," the documentary features
Vietnam veterans who say their Vietnamese captors used Mr. Kerry's 1971
Senate testimony, in which he recounted stories of American atrocities,
prolonging their torture and betraying and demoralizing them. Similar
claims were made by prisoners of war in a commercial that ran during the
summer from an anti-Kerry veterans group, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
Two of the former prisoners who appeared in the Swift Boat advertisement
were interviewed for the movie, including Ken Cordier, who had to resign
as a volunteer in the Bush campaign after the advertisement came out.
Sinclair's plan to show the documentary was first made public by The Los
Angeles Times on Saturday.
Mark Hyman, Sinclair's vice president for corporate relations, who
doubles as a conservative commentator on its news stations, said the
film would be shown because Sinclair deemed it newsworthy.
"Clearly John Kerry has made his Vietnam service the foundation of his
presidential run; this is an issue that is certainly topical," he said.
Asked what defined something as newsworthy, Mr. Hyman said, "In that it
hasn't been out in the marketplace, and the news marketplace."
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