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Originally posted by Cowperson+Oct 14 2004, 08:05 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Cowperson @ Oct 14 2004, 08:05 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Lanny_MacDonald@Oct 13 2004, 07:46 PM
Wow, the Nation really doesn't pull any punches. I wonder how they really feel on the issue? 
I really think this is the worst of American politics and something that has to change IMO. There is no length to the distances people will go to try and discredit their opponent down here. To us Canadians it is really shocking and strange to see take place. Culture shock? A little.
It just sucks when the people that you trust to give you the straight poop stop doing so and start fabricating stories to keep their viewers happy. Its so damn obvious at times. With the advent of FoxNews, its just got worse and worse and there is no end in sight to the downward slippery slope. I used to hate CBC because they were so damn Liberal, but I would even listen to them right now over a lot of the media down here, especially Fox. Now to be "fair and balanced" other stations start to go to opposite extremes. Its crazy.
The whole Sinclair issue is just part of the disease down here. The country is so divided on so many issues and its getting really ugly. The tension is such that a lot of companies have implemented policies against talking about politics and religion. Its sad when it comes to this and that something as basic as the democratic process can become a divisive issue for a country. I don't think the founding fathers had this in mind when they created the system.
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A follow up to the Sinclair Company and plans to air Stolen Honor about John Kerry.
The FCC is saying it is unlikely it would intervene to stop the broadcast:
``Don't look to us to block the airing of a program,'' Michael Powell told reporters. ``I don't know of any precedent in which the commission could do that.''
Eighteen senators, all Democrats, wrote to Powell this week and asked him to investigate Sinclair Broadcast Group's plan to run the program, ``Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal,'' two weeks before the Nov. 2 election.
Powell said there are no federal rules that would allow the agency to prevent the program. ``I think that would be an absolute disservice to the First Amendment and I think it would be unconstitutional if we attempted to do so,'' he said.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/politics/A...artner=homepage
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What do they do again there then? If not at least review a case, what? they obviously don't need to bother even with that if they aren't ever prepared, nor have they ever in the past done anything about anything.
