Anti-Kerry Film To Air on 1/4 Of America's TV's Nights Before Election, page 1

Every one of you Republicans in this thread know the difference in pay media like movies and cable and publicly owned broadcast media.

That's why you went ape when Moore was threatening to air F911 on election night via broadcast. It was stopped two ways, the distributor and RNC charges to the FEC. This is the same thing. If it were a video or book or movie you had to purchase, super.

It's not. It's a pre-emptive broadcast of network programming into homes of a political infomercial in an effort to salvage a failing re-election bid. It's the October Suprise.

Anyway, you guys and gals use your dollars and voices to boycott every little thing you don't like and scream bloody murder when the public airwaves show something partisan even when it's not an election and FEC rules apply, so you can't really complain on this one.

Just for fun, some facts about Sinclair's President in case you missed it the first time.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pennsylvania)

August 17, 1996, Saturday, SOONER EDITION

David D. Smith, president and chief executive officer of Sinclair Broadcast Group, was arrested this week in his hometown of Baltimore and charged with a misdemeanor sex offense. Sinclair owns WPGH, the Fox affiliate in Pittsburgh, and programs most of WPTT.

The Baltimore Sun reported that Smith, 45, was arrested Tuesday night in an undercover sting at a downtown corner frequented by prostitutes.

On Thursday night, Sinclair issued a statement that Smith's arrest was unrelated to company business and ''The company will continue to operate under the direction of its current management.''

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Broadcasting official charged in sex stakeout
Sinclair president, woman arrested in company car

Published on: August 15, 1996
Edition: FINAL
Section: NEWS
Page: 2B
Byline: SUN STAFFPeter Hermann

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The president of Baltimore-based Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc., which owns the local Fox television affiliate, was arrested Tuesday night and charged with committing a perverted sex act in a company-owned Mercedes, city police said.

David Deniston Smith, 45, of the 800 block of Hillstead Drive in Timonium, who also is Sinclair's chief executive, was arrested in an undercover sting at Read and St. Paul streets, a downtown corner frequented by prostitutes, Baltimore police said yesterday.

Smith and Mary DiPaulo, 31, were charged with committing unnatural and perverted sex act. Smith was held overnight at the Central Booking and Intake Center and released on personal recognizance at 2 p.m. yesterday. DiPaulo's bail status was not available.

Officials at WBFF-TV (Fox 45) and Sinclair, one of the fastest-growing broadcasting companies in the nation with 28 television and 34 radio stations, would not comment yesterday. The company had $126 million in sales in the first half of this year.

Police said undercover Officer Gary Bowman, on a prostitution detail, was talking to DiPaulo about 9: 15 p.m. in a car at St. Paul and Read streets. She left the undercover car after telling Bowman that ``she had just seen her regular date driving in the area,'' according to court documents.

Police said DiPaulo ran across the street to a 1992 Mercedes, registered to Sinclair, and got in on the passenger side. Police followed the car onto the Jones Falls Expressway, where they said they witnessed the two engage in oral sex while Smith drove north.

Police said they followed the car back to Read and St. Paul streets, where they arrested Smith and DiPaulo, who lives in the 700 block of Washington Blvd.

Those e-mails again?

Since local stations have been told by Sinclair they have no choice but to pre-empt programming and broadcast this FEC violation, here are the three who made the decision:

mhyman@sbgnet.com (Mark Hyman, host)
dsmith@sbgnet.com (David Smith, president)
jdefeo@sbgnet.com (Joe Defeo, news director)
Main telephone: 410.568.1500
Main Fax: 410.568.1533

But that will most likely yield nothing (but fun for you if you bring up hookers)

So contact mainstream media to get this talked about.

The foreknowledge of this effort will backfire it's intended purpose in the public arena. Doesn't matter if it gets shown anyway, if media covers it for what it is first.

Remind them. Often.