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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jay the Obscure: [QB] Overt censorship just really bugs me. Really. [QUOTE]Sinclair owns and operates, programs, or provides sales services to 62 stations in 39 markets, according to its Web site. In addition its ABC outlets, Sinclair's television group includes 20 Fox, 19 WB, six UPN, three CBS and four NBC affiliates, and two independent stations. It reaches approximately 24 percent of all U.S. television households, according to the Web site. [URL=http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/29/abc.nightline/index.html]CNN[/URL] [/QUOTE]24% of the households in the United States will have to read a book...that's not such a bad idea...because of an overtly political decision to censor a program. Or as U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey puts it... [QUOTE]"The decision by Sinclair ... to keep this program off its stations is being made by a corporation with a political agenda without regard to the wants or needs of its viewers," Hinchey said. "This move may be providing a chilling look into the future if we allow media ownership to be consolidated into fewer and fewer hands." Steve Gorman,[URL=http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4993948]Reuters[/URL] [/QUOTE]As to whom it slights... [QUOTE]The network initially said the 30-minute telecast would be limited acknowledging only the 523 U.S. troops killed in combat since the start of the war in March 3002. But on Thursday, ABC said it would expand the program to 40 minutes to include another 200 or more Americans who died as a result of accidents, friendly fire or suicide. Steve Gorman,[URL=http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4993948]Reuters[/URL] [/QUOTE]I'm not na�ve enough to think that self-censorship doesn't happen all the time with our lap-dog press corps, but there is more than one way to look at this broadcast, and it's just plain wrong for Sinclair Broadcast Group to make that decision for 24% of America. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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