Sinclair Broadcasting to Show Anti-Kerry Documentary

Following up on this front-page report in Saturday's Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post has run this report and the New York Times has run this report.

It is certainly unusual for a broadcast station to run what amounts to a long commentary against a candidate for federal office. (I give some statistics in my "Rupert Murdoch" article on how rare it is for broadcast stations to endorse candidates for office). But---from the point of view of federal election law (as opposed to, say, federal communications law---this is really no different from the New York Times endorsing a candidate for president (or running an oped supporting or opposing such a candidate).

Posted by Rick Hasen at October 11, 2004 06:37 AM