Boycott Sinclair Broadcast Group Advertisers

A web site calling for the boycotting of Sinclair lists known advertisers in local markets and their contact info. You can search by market and see what local businesses advertise on Sinclair stations, call them up, and let them know you won’t tolerate Sinclair’s Swift Boat-like political attack masquerading as news programming, and they shouldn’t be paying for it. The site asks for anyone calling advertisers, though, to be polite about it…

Scholars flunk Bush on foreign policy

“An open letter to the Bush administration from a group called ‘Security Scholars for a Sensible Foreign Policy’ argues that the Bush administration’s foreign policy is a catastrophe of historic proportions.

With more than 700 signatories from professors of politics and international relations at institutions including Stanford, Princeton and the University of Wales, the letter begins by declaring, ‘We judge that the current American policy centered around the war in Iraq is the most misguided one since the Vietnam period,’ and goes on to catalog the low points of the Bush administration’s foreign relations (with proper footnoting, of course).” (Salon)