The Times today has a piece on the anti-Kerry documentary Sinclair Broadcasting Group has ordered its 62 local stations to broadcast in the days before the election. Those 62 stations include affiliates of all six major broadcast networks in Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin, Nevada and Pennsylvania. The broadcast will preempt normal prime-time programming on those channels.
In case you are holding out some errant hope about the accuracy or fairness of the presentation, you’ll be happy to know that the major claim-to-fame of the movie’s producer, Carlton Sherwood, is Inquisition, his 1991 expose on the US government’s alleged ‘persecution’ of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon.
Sherwood’s report was so ‘independent’ that he let Moon’s representatives pre-screen it and make changes to the text. They also reportedly agreed to buy 100,000 copies of the book for good measure.
Welcome to the world of Rove.
