I could have sworn that this sort of thing didn’t happen in America. Once again, looks like I’m wrong.
My favorite is how the Sinclair Group tries to justify their decision with this argument:
Based on published reports, we are aware of the spouse of one soldier who died in Iraq who opposes the reading of her husband’s name to oppose our military action. We suspect she is not alone in this viewpoint. As a result, we have decided to preempt the broadcast of “Nightline’ this Friday on each of our stations which air ABC programming.
We heard one person who doesn’t like this, and we assume there’s more. So we’re not airing it.
Moronic as it may be, it’s never rang truer–when you assume, you make an ass out of (yo)u and me.