Sinclair Group to air anti-Kerry special before election

uh, "rats"

http://www.newscentral.tv/station/bios/mhyman.shtml

Mark Hyman is the Vice President for Corporate Relations for Sinclair, the nation’s largest operator of television stations. Sinclair’s television operations are diverse in programming with stations affiliated with the top six networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, UPN and WB). Sinclair currently owns, operates, programs, or provides sales services to 63 television stations, reaching one in four U.S. television households. Sinclair’s corporate headquarters are based in Hunt Valley, Maryland.

In his current position, he is the head of Corporate Relations which includes developing strategic policy, managing Federal, state and local legislative and regulatory relations, public and media affairs, and community outreach and charitable activities. Sinclair’s total media operations are located in 24 states.

He served briefly in the Army before attending college on an Army ROTC scholarship. He was later accepted to the U. S. Naval Academy from which he graduated in 1981. He served as a naval officer on ships assigned to the East and West coasts and he served in the U.S. Navy’s European headquarters in London. He has conducted worldwide travel with extensive time spent in the Middle East. He left active duty in 1989 and became employed as a civilian in the Office of Naval Intelligence, which included assignments with the U.S. On-Site Inspection Agency as a disarmament treaty weapons inspector in former Warsaw Pact countries. A Captain in the Naval Reserve, he has served in leadership positions in CIA’s National Warning Staff, the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office and he is currently a Commanding Officer in the Naval Reserve’s Space and Network Warfare Program.

In 1995, he attended Johns Hopkins University on an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship and worked in the U.S. House of Representatives. He joined Sinclair in 1997 as the Director of Government Relations and was promoted to his current position in 1999. He is an officer and director of the Maryland-D.C.-Delaware Broadcasters Association. He has appeared on CNN, Fox News and NPR, on local radio stations, has been interviewed in national publications including the New York Times, Washington Post and USA Today, and he hosts "The Point with Mark Hyman", televised commentaries appearing on Sinclair TV stations with a daily household audience more than four million viewers. He has been a speaker and panel member at numerous conventions and he has testified before Congress.

The military organizations in which he has served have been awarded four CIA National Intelligence Meritorious Unit Commendations during his service, and he has been awarded the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award, and several Navy and Joint military awards. He was selected as an International Who’s Who of Professionals for 1998 and 2001 and Who’s Who for 2001 and 2002. He is active in several area community and charity groups. Mark is married and has 4 children.

Pretty weird, no?

The word that gets me is the word "CURRENT". This means this guy is working on policy and programs in the now. The guy is ex-CIA and current miltary intelligence and the guy is doing a daily TV editorial.

The whole thing is just strikes me as another one of those news things I come across and I don't know what to think.

... the accusations coming from Terry McAuliffe and others, is it because there are some elements of this that may reflect poorly on John Kerry? That it's somehow an in-kind contribution of George Bush?

If you use that logic and reasoning, that means every car bomb in Iraq would be an in-kind contribution to John Kerry. Weak job performance ratings that came out last month would have been an in-kind contribution to John Kerry. And that's just nonsense.

This is news. I can't change the fact that these people decided to come forward today. The networks had this opportunity over a month ago to speak with these people. They chose to suppress them. They chose to ignore them. They are acting like Holocaust deniers, pretending these men don't exist.

as Campaign Desk points out, there's a LITTLE BIT of a difference between a politically-slanted flick/polemic and a news report...

XXP

Revising history is dangerous. Not recording it in the first place, that's fine.

wait a sec.

What is your opinion of Sinclair Broadcasting's intent to air Stolen Honor on all 62 of their television stations, during prime time, October 21 –24?
( ) The DNC is worried the truth unearthed in Stolen Honor will negatively impact Kerry’s presidential race.
( ) After the CBS scandal, partisans on both sides of the political spectrum should applaud truthful journalism.
( ) Forces are at work to keep the public from seeing this moving and powerful account of Kerry’s betrayal.
( ) Sinclair Broadcasting should air Stolen Honor as intended.

©2004 Red White and Blue Productions

choose one!

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"What dreadful people."

please do not e-mail the help desk with your political hooey. -- [email protected]

I'm sure that person will appreciate not being informed of such 'hooey' as racial discrimination.

Most surprising to me is that the guy is only 29. 29! Isn't that really young for that position? But good on him.

"Contrary to numerous inaccurate political and press accounts, the Sinclair stations will not be airing the documentary 'Stolen Honor' in its entirety," the Baltimore-based company said in a statement.

Haha bitches don't like it when their stock prices drop!

of course, it'll never happen, but someone at least made the offer.

Burger King to pull all ads offa Sinclair stations on the day the flick will air