{"id":25,"date":"2004-10-12T08:29:02","date_gmt":"2004-10-12T15:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=25"},"modified":"2007-05-11T12:28:40","modified_gmt":"2007-05-11T19:28:40","slug":"sinclair-broadcastings-election-tampering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Sinclair Broadcasting’s Election Tampering"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sinclair Broadcasting is inserting itself<\/a> into the presidential election in the most abusive way imaginable. They are ordering<\/strong> their 62 affiliates to preempt regularly scheduled programming to air a dubious and blatantly anti-Kerry documentary<\/i>, Stolen Honor, produced by a former Washington Times writer.<\/p>\n

This is the same company that forbade its affiliate from airing the episode of Nightline, The Fallen, that paid tribute to soldiers that died in Iraq.<\/p>\n

Several groups have sprung up to oppose this programming decision, among them:
\nStop Sinclair<\/a> is an online petition.
\nBoycott Sinclair<\/a> has complied a list of advertisers to put pressure on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sinclair Broadcasting is inserting itself into the presidential election in the most abusive way imaginable. They are ordering their 62 affiliates to preempt regularly scheduled programming to air a dubious and blatantly anti-Kerry documentary, Stolen Honor, produced by a former Washington Times writer. This is the same company that forbade its affiliate from airing the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-scandalous"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-p","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37543,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37543","url_meta":{"origin":25,"position":0},"title":"Sinclair State-TV Chairman to Trump: ‘We Are Here to Deliver Your Message’","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/10\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"As the walls close in on Donald Trump and his crime syndicate associates, the conservative propaganda networks are furiously trying to twist the facts into an unrecognizable perversion of reality. 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