Wednesday, October 20, 2004

TV stations told to pull plug on anti-Kerry film

TV stations told to pull plug on anti-Kerry film
Media group accused of pro-Bush bias; shareholders threaten to sue

By Mark Memmott
USA TODAY 
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20041020/a_sinclair20.art.htm
A media company that had planned to broadcast much of a film that attacks Sen. John Kerry on its 62 TV stations significantly changed its plans Tuesday amid protests from some of its shareholders and Kerry's supporters.

The company — Sinclair Broadcast Group of Hunt Valley, Md. — didn't immediately satisfy its most vocal critics. But the change seems to make it less likely that the program will be mostly devoted to the anti-Kerry film....