my e-mail to Sinclair: What does it feel like to be a yellow journalist?

To: comments@sbgi.net

To those who control Sinclair Broadcasting and would try to control public discourse through yellow journalism:

Even Senator McCain has found your broadcasting "offensive."

"I write to strongly protest your decision to instruct Sinclair’s ABC affiliates to preempt this evening's Nightline program. I find deeply offensive Sinclair’s objection to Nightline’s intention to broadcast the names and photographs of Americans who gave their lives in service to our country in Iraq."
MCCAIN LETTER TO SINCLAIR BROADCAST ON PREEMPTION OF NIGHTLINE
Friday, Apr 30, 2004
http://mccain.senate.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=NewsCenter.ViewPressRelease&Content_id=1276

I will work for, or contribute to, any individual or organization that fights such overtly bias news whether it is left or right. Swaying public opinion with political propaganda is the most un-American act I can think of.

Joe Free
Los Angeles, California



Propaganda: The systematic propagation of a doctrine or cause or of information reflecting the views and interests of those advocating such a doctrine or cause.