You're kidding, right Cow? Maybe its because you are across the border and aren't getting the extent of the coverage on this, but this issue is a massive can of worms. This is the largest ownership company in the country when it comes to television, and it is going to use its broadcast capability to broadcast what its political views. Sinclair is not just a Fox broadcaster, but also owns ABC, NBC and ABC affiliates. This company plans on blocking time on ALL of its stations, regardless of affiliation, and broadcast this "documentary" that is considered extreme propaganda. This is an unbelievable abuse of power. I think the FCC should be pulling licenses for this if Sinclair follows through. That doesn't even touch on breach of affiliate agreements, which is a kettle of fish in its own right.
What I find funny is that the Republicans did everything they could to make sure that F911 was not released. They pressured Disney and made sure that Miramax would not release it under their umbrella. Disney was willing to eat millions of dollars in production costs to NOT release this film. This was such a contentious issue that Miramax and Disney went their seperate ways. Ironically it took a Canadian company (Lions Gate) to distribute the film and get the ball rolling. The rest is history.
So you had a Republican run company that was willing to eat millions of dollars to NOT release a critically acclaimed, major award winning film, for political reasons. Now you have a neo-conservative Company, Sinclair, who is going to spend millions of dollars in air time to broacast a "documentary" made on the cheap by some individuals with one message and one message only, to smear an individual. This is also not the first time Sinclair has done this. He prevented his ABC affiliates from broacasting a Nightline Report that read off the names of those soldiers killed in Iraq. They viewed that as being unAmerican content and damaging to the President and the Republican party. Honoring those fallen in battle is unAmerican? WTF??? Some will say that there is a similarity between the two situations, but I just don't see it. The only similarity is that both situations have Republican run companies doing what they feel is right to protect/promote their politcal views. So much for the "liberal controlled media". It seems to me that the Republicans want it one way and one way only. Its not kosher.
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