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Release the hounds!

Media Matters for America, David Brock’s new media watchdog outfit, just annouced that they’ve underwritten the costs of a shareholder action to force Sinclair Broadcasting to provide real equal time to balance their forced airing of the hour-long Swift Boat smear.

A demand letter just went out this morning and that’s to be followed tomorrow, if no reasonable response is forthcoming, by a request for an injunction preventing the airing of the film.

Click here for all the details …

And if that weren’t enough, that’s not the only lawsuit coming down the pike this afternoon.

Also, we’re hearing that there are quite a few Sinclair employees at the local level who are actually hoping the boycott works.

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