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Originally Posted by Patti
Big difference, Hawkeye. This is airing on national TV, free. If you wanted to see Fahrenheit 9/11, you had to go to the theatre and pay to see it. That plus forcing the stations to air this is plain wrong. It's also free advertising for Bush/Cheney, which has to violate all sorts of campaign rules. I'll defer to the experts here about that.
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It's using public airwaves to make an in-kind contribution to a presidential campaign; it's wrong and the FEC will bar them from airing it. The "editorial" argument is bogus because the film was made independently from Sinclair and they had absolutely nothing to do with its being made. It would be like me, the owner of Dissention Boradcasting, an affiliate of ABC, taking Outfoxed and airing it as a company editorial. PLUS - they are airing it in place of ABC primetime programming without any advertisements. It's wrong.