Kevin Hayden has the latest update.

Here's a short summary for those not following closely:

Amazing. Right-wing Sinclair Broadcast Group, a company that owns local TV stations across the country, is ordering its local stations to preempt normal broadcasting a couple days before the election to air an anti-Kerry film made by a former 'reporter' for the Washington Times.

Basically it's a 90 minute Swift-Boat ad which Sinclair is ordering stations seen in a quarter of the nation's households to show a week before the election.

Check out Josh Green's article on Karl Rove in the current Atlantic Monthly if you want some clue what's going on here. See earlier TPM discussion of the article's contents here.

Many links to follow in these posts.

Don't underestimate the influence of a 90-minute anti-Kerry infomercial broadcast for free in the many swing states in which Sinclair operates (including Wisconsin). It's getting bad, folks. As if it's not enough that Karl Rove has been furiously working the phones for four years in an effort to intimidate those in the media who dare to criticize Bush. Now at least one corporate media entity has actively cast their lot with the Bush adminstration, probably violating FEC guidelines in the process.

There are things that we can do. Sinclair is publicly owned. And their advertisers would probably like to know what's going on. Here's a report of an early success. Make a call or two.