The Sinclair Broadcast Group’s decision not to play ABC’s Nightline because Ted Koppel is reading all the names of the American soldiers who have died in action in Iraq is yet another example of recent censorship in the publicly controlled airwaves.
While the CBS decision to prevent Moveon.org from placing a paid ad critical of the budget deficit during the Superbowl is of a different stripe, in both cases mainstream critical voices are being shut out from popular American political dialogue. It is to John McCain’s great credit that he has pretty consistently lent a voice of reason to the debate on the over-concentration of U.S. media control, as he has now in the case of the Nightline episode ban.
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