Sunday, October 10, 2004
Sinclair Whorage: October Surprise #1
I guess I'm just a little confused.
CBS gets fined $550,000 for showing a tenth of a second of Janet Jackson's tit.
Then the wingers at Sinclair Broadcasting mandate that all their affiliates in swing states run a Moonie hit piece on Kerry just before the election, and nobody says a word (Xan, back).
And hey! Guess what government department Carlton Sherwood, the guy who made this agitprop for Sinclair, worked for? I'll wait.... Could it be... The Department ofHomelandBush Election Security? Bien sur! (Josh Marshall).
Sinclair, by the way, is the same network that pre-empted Nightline, when Nightline honored the troops by reading the names of the war dead.
The latest on Sinclair? Sinclair CEO David Smith was arrested in 1996 for having a prostitute service him—in his company car (Atrios).
Now that's what I like—a free market Republican who takes his values seriously enough to act on them!
And make up your jokes about "media whores"....
Xan suggests we ask Soros to buy air time for Kerry. Heck, why not ask Soros to buy the whole fucking network? Maybe Soros could get them to change their business model; we could use an actual newsgathering operation right now.
NOTE Sid the Fish has more on Sherwood's unsavory past. Pandagon asks what the quid pro quo is likely to be. And Kevin Drum asks why not contact their investor relations flak?
CBS gets fined $550,000 for showing a tenth of a second of Janet Jackson's tit.
Then the wingers at Sinclair Broadcasting mandate that all their affiliates in swing states run a Moonie hit piece on Kerry just before the election, and nobody says a word (Xan, back).
And hey! Guess what government department Carlton Sherwood, the guy who made this agitprop for Sinclair, worked for? I'll wait.... Could it be... The Department of
Sinclair, by the way, is the same network that pre-empted Nightline, when Nightline honored the troops by reading the names of the war dead.
The latest on Sinclair? Sinclair CEO David Smith was arrested in 1996 for having a prostitute service him—in his company car (Atrios).
Now that's what I like—a free market Republican who takes his values seriously enough to act on them!
And make up your jokes about "media whores"....
Xan suggests we ask Soros to buy air time for Kerry. Heck, why not ask Soros to buy the whole fucking network? Maybe Soros could get them to change their business model; we could use an actual newsgathering operation right now.
NOTE Sid the Fish has more on Sherwood's unsavory past. Pandagon asks what the quid pro quo is likely to be. And Kevin Drum asks why not contact their investor relations flak?
