» FAIR - Sinclair's Partisan Ploy Cries Out for Equal Time    In an unprecedented move, Sinclair attempts to influence the 2004 presidential election by ordering its stations to preempt regular prime-time broadcasts to air an anti-John Kerry film.    http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1987

» Sinclair's News Central Provides Steady Diet of Pro-Bush, Anti-Progressive News Items    Analysis of programs in the two weeks following the 2004 presidential election suggests that this broadcast group regularly demeans progressives, in the guise of revealing neglected news. [Media Matters]    http://mediamatters.org/items/200411180001

» Sleaze and Smear at Sinclair    To critics, it is no surprise that a conservative broadcaster who used his media empire to pay a personal penalty and a journalist who aired a baseless "exposé" on veterans are now a team intent on smearing John Kerry. [Salon]    http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2004/10/22/sinclair/index.html

» Stop Sinclair    Aims to convince the new CW network not to sign affiliate agreements with Sinclair Broadcasting.    http://www.stopsinclair.org/

» The Nation - Orwellian Twist on the Campaign    Asserts that as George Orwell warned in his book 1984, the actions of Sinclair portray a chilling direction that the US media is headed in.    http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?bid=1&pid=1912

» The Nation - Sinclair's Continued Charade    Despite the outcry from consumers, lawmakers, advertisers, press experts and media watchdog groups, SBG still airs a political attack show as "news" a week before the November 2004 election.    http://www.thenation.com/blogs/outrage?pid=1910

» Truthout - Sinclair Fires Washington Bureau Chief    The Washington bureau chief for Sinclair says he was fired after he criticized the company's plans to produce a news program based on a documentary critical of John Kerry's Vietnam-era anti-war activities.    http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/102004Z.shtml