Sinclair Broadcast Group Allegedly Unethical Firms Business

This category is for the actions of Sinclair Broadcast Group which have allegedly abused its media power to force its stations to preempt network programming to air partisan political shows as well as its editorials, as well as block programs that disagree with the owner's views.

• Sleaze and Smear at Sinclair - To critics, it is no surprise that a conservative broadcaster who used his media empire to pay a personal penalty and a journalist who aired a baseless "exposé" on veterans are now a team intent on smearing John Kerry. [Salon]
  
• The Nation - Sinclair's Continued Charade - Despite the outcry from consumers, lawmakers, advertisers, press experts and media watchdog groups, SBG still airs a political attack show as "news" a week before the November 2004 election.
  
• Sinclair's News Central Provides Steady Diet of Pro-Bush, Anti-Progressive News Items - Analysis of programs in the two weeks following the 2004 presidential election suggests that this broadcast group regularly demeans progressives, in the guise of revealing neglected news. [Media Matters]
  
• FAIR - Sinclair's Partisan Ploy Cries Out for Equal Time - In an unprecedented move, Sinclair attempts to influence the 2004 presidential election by ordering its stations to preempt regular prime-time broadcasts to air an anti-John Kerry film.
  
• The Nation - Orwellian Twist on the Campaign - Asserts that as George Orwell warned in his book 1984, the actions of Sinclair portray a chilling direction that the US media is headed in.
  
  

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