This morning, I visited
http://www.freepress.net/sinclair/dn.php?zip=&h=t
in order to confront Sinclair Broadcasting about their decision to pre-empt normal programming in order to show the film "Stolen Honor", a product of the group called "Swift Boat Veterans For Truth".
This is the same outfit that blocked a special episode of _Nightline_ this spring, on the grounds that honoring the war dead was "too political". Apparently giving 45 minutes of air time to the Swiftettes, commercial-free and at no charge, is just good journalism, no politics involved.
2 comments:
(message attempted to be posted at your blog,
but copied for cut-n-paste just in case...)
Still not getting how this works. I klik comment, get "sign in, put in name and password, but there's no button. I klik "post anonymously 9so what was the point of signing in?) and get this box 'post-a-comment" but there's a preview button, still no "post" button.
Okay, I'll write something, see what happens, but copy it to cut and paste in case it vanishes into the internets.
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You've known me long enough and I hope well enough to know which President* I'll be voting against. But I can be objective - something you'd expect from a third party candidate who ran against Dole and Clinton.
So when we good guys hear Michael Moore wants to get Fahrenheit 9/11 on pay-per-view the night before the election, that fits in with his freedom of speech and his right to do everything he can as a citizen to affect the outcome of the election and save us from Resident Select Dubya Shrub, Junior. And we all go "Yeah, that'll show 'em!"
But if "them" (the space nazis) want to air an anti Kerry film strip on a couple of channels, it's all "Boo hoo, that's not fair!" WTF? It's goose and gander. Fair for one side, fair for all, and being the good guys means we should know that.
Maybe I'm a sucker for that old superhero cliche about not killing: "If you use the enemies tactics you become as bad as they are."
The other guys have Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Miller, and I think Maher is edging in their direction on some issues. We have Franken and Moore, proving out assholes are as big an asshole as their assholes. We should strive for better.
On the other hand, I read that it's stupid not to fight dirty if the other side is fighting dirty and winning. There's some truth to that too, but I don't have to like it. I guess I'm an idealist.
Did I just do flippy-floppy?
That's why I'm a media cricket and not a p*l*t*c*l pundit.
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Aaaannnndd... here it is. Okay, I wrote it in the box, kliked "preview', saw it in print, but there was no "post" button.
Went to bookmarks and returned to your front page, reread your message, but it said "0 comments"
So, again, I call this to your attention.
You e-mailed me saying "post at my blog"
I'm e-mailing back, saying "hey, I'm trying".
I wonder, do any of the other people who have blogs with that company have comments?
- Randall -
And I love the asterisk on "President*" implying there was something hinky with the election that needs to be footnoted in the record book to indicate he's not a 'real' President.
And this coming from a Grand Rapidian. A recent special on local PBS convinced me that our guy really meant the best for the country by pardoning thatsonofabitchNIxon, but President Jerry is still, at least from My lifetime,
THE President who was never elected President.
At least he was until President Gore was ousted in that coup back in '00.
Yes, I think fairness and consistency is at the heart of this matter. If Sinclair Broadcasting is so anxious to remain decently above the fray of politics that they must refuse to take part in a cheap partisan stunt like honoring the war dead, it seems a bit odd that they would choose to offer a free ride, without commercial interruption, to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth*.
I walked into a Blockbuster store the other day (I have few options -- the last independent local video store died last year), and on the shelves I saw "Stolen Honor", "Fahrenheit 9/11", "FahrenHYPE 9/11" and several other election-year specials. Good for Blockbuster, I say, and may they make a pile of money by being equal-opportunity panderers.
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