the level to which US Republican support has sunk, one only has to follow the Sinclair Broadcasting affair. The NYTimes has the basic story: Talking Points Memo (the link goes to one entry, but scroll down to read lots more, including a letter to Marshall from Reed Hundt, former chair of the FCC).
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JackW says
Yup, Sinclair is a problem, especially because of so many of those stations are in swing states….
….but it would be naive us to think that similar things might not happen North of 49. After all, apparently John Reynolds went South to the RNC to get schooled in the Rovian ’72hr turnaround strategy’.
Michael says
I think it’s a good point to call out CanWest for what it is, but at the same time, this kind of shenanigans is still way beyond anything we have seen or likely will see here. Hour-long infomercials? Definitely covered by the third-party spending rules, which limit the amount spent to about $150K. I don’t think you could put on an hour of programming that would come under that limit.