----- Original Message ----- From: Robert Merkin To: drugwar at mindvox.com Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 7:50 AM Subject: [DrugWar] OT: Sinclair Broadcast Group's CEO parties
Okay, I just can't help myself ... The Baltimore-based ultra-right-wing Sinclair Broadcast Group is the largest owner of US television stations -- 39 I think -- and they've just ordered all their stations to show a Kerry-bashing piece of propaganda called "Stolen Honor." Previously, Sinclair blacked out Bill Maher's "Politically Incorrect" from its ABC affiliates when Maher said something that hurt the sensitive feelings of the Bush administration, and on 30 April Sinclair ordered its ABC stations not to show the Nightline episode in which Ted Koppel read the names of all America's war dead in Iraq and Afghanistan. Well ... whatever you've read about the Sinclair right-wing nut jobs ... you don't know the half of it. Naturally Sinclair stands for the Highest Standards of Moral Behavior, so here's a little bonbon about Sinclair's CEO you might have missed. Elmer ==============================
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pennsylvania) August 17, 1996
David D. Smith, president and chief executive officer of Sinclair Broadcast Group, was arrested this week in his hometown of Baltimore and charged with a misdemeanor sex offense. Sinclair owns WPGH, the Fox affiliate in Pittsburgh, and programs most of WPTT.
The Baltimore Sun reported that Smith, 45, was arrested Tuesday night in an undercover sting at a downtown corner frequented by prostitutes.
On Thursday night, Sinclair issued a statement that Smith's arrest was unrelated to company business and ''The company will continue to operate under the direction of its current management.''
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Broadcasting official charged in sex stakeout Sinclair president, woman arrested in company car
The president of Baltimore-based Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc., which owns the local Fox television affiliate, was arrested Tuesday night and charged with committing a perverted sex act in a company-owned Mercedes, city police said.
David Deniston Smith, 45, of the 800 block of Hillstead Drive in Timonium, who also is Sinclair's chief executive, was arrested in an undercover sting at Read and St. Paul streets, a downtown corner frequented by prostitutes, Baltimore police said yesterday.
Smith and Mary DiPaulo, 31, were charged with committing an unnatural and perverted sex act. Smith was held overnight at the Central Booking and Intake Center and released on personal recognizance at 2 p.m. yesterday. DiPaulo's bail status was not available.
Officials at WBFF-TV (Fox 45) and Sinclair, one of the fastest-growing broadcasting companies in the nation with 28 television and 34 radio stations, would not comment yesterday. The company had $126 million in sales in the first half of this year.
Police said undercover Officer Gary Bowman, on a prostitution detail, was talking to DiPaulo about 9: 15 p.m. in a car at St. Paul and Read streets. She left the undercover car after telling Bowman that ``she had just seen her regular date driving in the area,'' according to court documents.
Police said DiPaulo ran across the street to a 1992 Mercedes, registered to Sinclair, and got in on the passenger side. Police followed the car onto the Jones Falls Expressway, where they said they witnessed the two engage in oral sex while Smith drove north.
Police said they followed the car back to Read and St. Paul streets, where they arrested Smith and DiPaulo, who lives in the 700 block of Washington Blvd. ~~~~~~~~~~~
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