Public Service Announcement

[bktheirregular]

Is anybody who reads this journal in a region where tonight's ABC broadcast of "Nightline" is being blacked out by Sinclair Broadcast Group?

I'm going to attempt to record this in one type of computer format or another, as best I can. If all works out, I might even be able to make VCD's of the broadcast, for those who are interested. Maybe.

Comments

[butterflykiki.livejournal.com]

I have no idea, stupid CNN page won't load. *kicks Spenser, tries to get computer to work* What regions are this? Why should I care? What's going on? Have you had any chocolate today? Hmm?

[bktheirregular]

Lemme explain ... no, too complicated. Let me sum up.

Tonight on "Nightline", Ted Koppel will be reading a roll call of all the soldiers who have died in the Iraq war, accompanied by photos of the fallen. That is the entirety of the program.

Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of a whole lot of ABC affiliates, is of the opinion that this broadcast is undermining the war effort under the guise of journalism, and has ordered every ABC affiliate it owns to put other programming on in place of Nightline.

To boil it down: they consider a roll call of the dead to be unpatriotic. And since they own so many stations, their opinion overrides that of the news reporters.

Haven't had any chocolate in ... lessee ... several years now.