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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedMUTING MAHER.(Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. pulls 'Politically Incorrect' due to Bill Maher's insensitive comments)(Brief Article)
Broadcasting & Cable, October, 2001 by TRIG0BOFF, DAN
Sinclair Broadcasting last week pulled Politically Incorrect from the schedules of its ABC affiliates--it has seven, including top-25-market KDNL-TV St. Louis--to protest remarks by host Bill Maher regarding the terrorist attacks against New York and Washington. Sinclair Vice President Mark Hyman said executives were unaware of Maher's remarks until they received viewer complaints.
Maher had addressed the issue of terrorist cowardice, commenting that, "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." Later Maher said his remarks were directed at politicians, not servicemen and women, and apologized to people "who...
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