"Nightline" Censored

Here's an outrage of the week worthier than any of the outrages voiced on CNN's "The Capital Gang."

ABC's late-night news program, "Nightline," is doing a special program tonight in which Ted Koppel will recite the names of all the service personnel killed in Iraq since the war started there. Sinclair Broadcasting, a corporate broadcaster that owns several ABC-affiliated stations, refuses to air this broadcast of "Nightline" in several markets in the Midwest and the South (including St. Louis), as well as in Springfield, Massachusetts, on the grounds that what Koppel is doing amounts to antiwar propaganda.

Sinclair Broadcasting is clearly trying to stop the dissemination of information about the war's terrible cost to the families of those killed in Iraq. Even Senator John McCain, a pro-war legislator, is outraged at Sinclair's act.

This is the most egregious and most foul assault on freedom of expression in this country since Tuesday! :-(