So where was all the bias in the Sinclair broadcast of A POW Story: Politics, Pressure and the Media last night? Either all the pressure from the political and media institutions — and, most importantly, Wall Street — successfully transformed what finally made the air (likely) or Sinclair was speaking the truth when they said they never planned to show the entire film, Stolen Honor, in the first place. I watched it, and here are my observations:

Sinclair News Central anchor Jeff Barnd needs a jacket that isn’t two sizes too big.

The script was written as if the audience was a group of 8th graders. The audience wasn’t given credit for knowing anything about the subject, and I think that was demonstrative of Sinclair’s desire to be fair. However, it produced a prose that was an inch deep.

In trying to be fair, I actually came away thinking the thing had a pro-Kerry spin.

The editing was effect-driven, which is something you do when you’re trying to match audio with video instead of the other way around. It usually produces an amateurish product, which this was.