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Shocking! Sinclair Broadcasting wants to show a 40 minute documentary, and Sundance Film Channel is doing what??

From NRO



October 13, 2004, 10:08 a.m.
Sinclair vs. Sundance
The Sundance Film Channel is the most political — and most anti-Bush — of them all.

By William P. Kucewicz

Liberals, claiming the Sinclair Broadcast Group is trying to "tip" the presidential election, are enraged by plans to air a documentary critical of John Kerry's 1970s antiwar activities. The anti-Kerry exposé, however, pales in comparison to the current political high jinks at Robert Robert's Sundance film channel.

Organizing what amounts to a Dump George Bush film festival, the Sundance Channel, which is under Redford's "creative direction" but is operated by Viacom's Showtime Networks, is preempting its scheduled lineup in order to devote nearly one-sixth of its airtime through Election Day to programming opposed to President Bush and the GOP. So far, however, this highly partisan scheme has slipped under the news media's radar.

Not so, the Sinclair controversy. All Tuesday, the airwaves were filled with discussion of the proposal to broadcast, at least in part, Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal, which NRO's Kate O'Beirne has called a "powerful documentary featuring highly decorated Vietnam POWs recounting how Lt. (jg) John Kerry's antiwar activity affected them."

Sinclair, with 62 local TV stations reaching a quarter of all U.S. households, is "hell-bent on doing anything to help elect President Bush even if that means violating basic journalism standards," insists a Kerry campaign spokesman. The Nation's Ari Berman claims, "Federal election law prohibits public corporations and labor unions from airing 'electioneering communication' sixty days before an election. But Sinclair dubs the anti-Kerry attackumentary 'news content.'" And New York Daily News columnist Juan Gonzalez declares, "For the first time in our history, a major television company is openly trying to tip a presidential election."

Well, if Gonzalez thinks Sinclair is making history, wait till he looks at the Sundance Channel schedule from now through Election Day.

The unofficial kickoff was Monday night. Sundance preempted its



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[Mary Ann Parker]

Nothing is so painful to watch as the desperate
musings of a FADING star
when the APPLAUSE disappears

[b]I am starting to be encouraged by all of the demented
activity and manic motions!!!

Make it a bright day.
Mary Ann Parker