For shame.
Remember way back when (okay, only a year ago), Sinclair Broadcasting decided to run an anti-Kerry Swift Boat infomercial on its stations across the country. A popular outcry and a lot of truly spontaneous grassroots activism made them pull back, at least part of the way. But a big rock rolled into the road for them when their DC Bureau Chief, one Jonathan Lieberman took a stand, gave an interview to the Balitmore Sun, and called the effort “biased political propaganda, with clear intentions to sway this election … For me, it’s not about right or left — it’s about what’s right or wrong in news coverage this close to an election.”
The headline of our post, a year ago almost to the day, ran “Soon to join the jobless?” I make no claim for prescience when I tell you he was immediately fired.
Sinclair has continued to harass Lieberman ever since. And now comes word the sharks at Sinclair are suing Lieberman for giving the unauthorized interview. “Sinclair,” this article reports, “is also asking the court to order an accounting of the wages Leiberman earned working for another news outlet after Sinclair fired him.”
Now this is a while back, a time a lot of folks would like to forget. And most everybody’s moved on. But clearly Lieberman is still stuck with the consequences of doing the right thing when it counted. By the letter of the law and the contract, Sinclair may have a case. But this guy’s deserves everyone’s support.
