Shows Ignored or Denounced Swifties Now Upset by Sinclair (ABC Sawyer Interview's Durbin & Hyman)

Thursday 9th of September 2010 05:01:44 AM
Posted by admin / Under Hyman Minsky

ABC's Good Morning America. The MRC's Jessica Anderson caught Diane Sawyer's October 12 segment. Sawyer introduced it in the 7am half hour reserved for the most important news of the day: "The sparks are flying this morning about what's fair in TV and politics. The Sinclair Broadcast Group runs the nation's biggest chain of TV stations, 62 of them, covering several key swing states. A big Republican contributor, Sinclair has decided to preempt its regular programming and have its stations play a documentary, fiercely critical of Senator John Kerry, in primetime two weeks before the election. The film, 'Stolen Honor:...

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In Iraq, Going for the Upbeat [Positive News from Iraq]

Thursday 9th of September 2010 05:01:44 AM
Posted by admin / Under Hyman Minsky

Newscasts on Baltimore County-based Sinclair Broadcast Group stations are reporting and airing stories this month that, under ordinary circumstances, would send viewers scurrying to the fridge. Their journalists are describing school construction and consumer sales and energy infrastructure. They're talking about people getting their first mortgages and the unemployed desperately looking for their first jobs in years. All in all, it's what would normally be considered mundane fare. But Sinclair's Jon Leiberman and Mark Hyman are reporting from Iraq. And they are presenting what they say are the positive, "untold stories" that the "liberal media" don't recount during constant coverage...

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