Huntsville, AL Station Dropping Nightline tonight. Please help!

There's an online poll here: http://www.waaytv.com/ (on the left, halfway down)

email at: newsroom@waaytv.com

Any and all help in an email blitz would be appreciated.

Thanks, and help keep this kicked.

On edit, I sent my own comment and a copy of the John McCain letter to the Sinclair stations:

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U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) issued the following letter today to Mr. David Smith, President and CEO of Sinclair Broadcast Group, in response to the preemption of this evening’s Nightline program:

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.

I supported the President’s decision to go to war in Iraq, and remain a strong supporter of that decision. But every American has a responsibility to understand fully the terrible costs of war and the extraordinary sacrifices it requires of those brave men and women who volunteer to defend the rest of us; lest we ever forget or grow insensitive to how grave a decision it is for our government to order Americans into combat. It is a solemn responsibility of elected officials to accept responsibility for our decision and its consequences, and, with those who disseminate the news, to ensure that Americans are fully informed of those consequences.

There is no valid reason for Sinclair to shirk its responsibility in what I assume is a very misguided attempt to prevent your viewers from completely appreciating the extraordinary sacrifices made on their behalf by Americans serving in Iraq. War is an awful, but sometimes necessary business. Your decision to deny your viewers an opportunity to be reminded of war’s terrible costs, in all their heartbreaking detail, is a gross disservice to the public, and to the men and women of the United States Armed Forces. It is, in short, sir, unpatriotic. I hope it meets with the public opprobrium it most certainly deserves.

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(It's a public press release, so open for copying in its entirety)

Send it on.

79% No

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86 percent said no, pre-empting "Nightline" was wrong, versus 14 percent saying yes they did the right thing to pre-empt.

Interesting. I haven't seen ONE of these polls, from several of the Sinclair stations, that have said pre-empting "Nightline" was a good thing to do. And I saw elsewhere here that Anderson Cooper on CNN said they'd had hundreds of emails from families of fallen soldiers - NONE of whom objected to what "Nightline" was gonna do. NONE.

86% No

It doesn't surprise me that WAAY is doing this. I lived in the Huntsville area until very recently and the "news" coverage is laughable.

Don't forget: Huntsville's in a really, really red state. The crazy snake-handling churches on the mountains in surrounding counties put the "fundament" in fundamentalist.

Huntsville is also the home to Redstone Arsenal and many other defense and space contractors (SAIC, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, etc.).

and with Fox News blaring in the background...we had a lovely discussion about how there were 100s of mobile weapons labs in Iraq and I just dont watch or read the news enough, or I would have seen it...

LOL...next time we are there, I'm assuming that he'll say that no one died in Iraq...figures that this would be in Huntsville...

Lots of American flags but not a patriot to be found.....

word. Christ, this is where Hannity got his start in radio.

Waaaaah!

Sinclair's licenses would be hanging in the balance.

Sadly, this is not a perfect world, now is it?

family that panders to the lowest commen denominators.

*sigh*

Do you think WAAY 31 and other ABC affiliates should pre-empt Friday night's Nightline?
Thank you for participating in our poll. Here are the results so far.

Yes 10%

No 90%

Voted and e-mailed

90% no!

typical repug media logic

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Carol

Keep 'em coming.

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