Boing Boing: America's largest broadcast group to air anti-Kerry primetime smear

Monday, October 11, 2004

America's largest broadcast group to air anti-Kerry primetime smear

Your airwaves at work: Sinclair Broadcast Group, which owns the largest chain of television stations in the USA, plans to broadcast a documentary accusing John Kerry of having betrayed American POWs in Vietnam.

According to WashingtonPost.com, Hunt Valley, Md.-based Sinclair has ordered its 62 stations, some of which are in the swing states of Ohio, Florida, Iowa and Wisconsin, to show "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal" during prime-time hours next week. The Sinclair station group extends to 24 percent of U.S. television households.

Link, and more on why this is ~~such a total douchebag stunt~~ so unusual on Romanesko: Link (Thanks, Siege)

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