We’re just days away from what looks like will be a razor-thin margin of victory in the presidential election, and like a lot of people, I’m worried. Not that there might be another Florida, but that this time, there might be more than a half-dozen Floridas.
Entries from October 2004
Five Ways to a Better Democracy
October 25th, 2004 · No Comments
Tags: Elections · Journalism Ethics · Media Economics
Sinclair Tries to Skew the Election
October 18th, 2004 · 7 Comments
Now Sinclair is ordering all of its 62 stations (including KGAN, Ch. 2, the CBS affiliate in Cedar Rapids) to show a 45-minute anti-Kerry documentary titled “Stolen Honor: Wounds that Never Heal†in the days right before the Nov. 2 election. Never mind, of course, that Section 315 of the Communications Act requires equal time for candidates. Sinclair says that the documentary fits Section 315’s news exemption, but by all reasonable accounts, this isn’t news, its pure propaganda.
Tags: Elections · Journalism Ethics