Sinclair Broadcasting Head Sex Offender

That GOP Family Values guy who decides what is acceptable to put on TV pays whores for blow jobs.

In the comments section it was also revealed he made a profit on stock from suspicious, possible insider, trading.

David D. Smith ordered his TV stations to not broadcast the memorial reading of names in Friday night's Nightline. Senator McCain and others have denounced that decision as unpatriotic and unAmerican censorship.

David Smith is also the person responsible for gutting local news reporting on stations he owns and requiring the stations he owns to run centrally produced political very right wing commentary. One of his chief targets was Clinton, (maybe Smith was upset he got blow jobs for free).

Looks like Atrios has been doing searches on David Smith and Sinclair.

Broadcasting official charged in sex stakeout
Sinclair president, woman arrested in company car

Published on: August 15, 1996
Byline: SUN STAFFPeter Hermann

The president of Baltimore-based Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc., which owns the local Fox television affiliate, was arrested Tuesday night and charged with committing a perverted sex act in a company-owned Mercedes, city police said.

David Deniston Smith, 45, of the 800 block of Hillstead Drive in Timonium, who also is Sinclair's chief executive, was arrested in an undercover sting at Read and St. Paul streets, a downtown corner frequented by prostitutes, Baltimore police said yesterday.

Smith and Mary DiPaulo, 31, were charged with committing unnatural and perverted sex act. Smith was held overnight at the Central Booking and Intake Center and released on personal recognizance at 2 p.m. yesterday. DiPaulo's bail status was not available.

Officials at WBFF-TV (Fox 45) and Sinclair, one of the fastest-growing broadcasting companies in the nation with 28 television and 34 radio stations, would not comment yesterday. The company had $126 million in sales in the first half of this year.

Police said undercover Officer Gary Bowman, on a prostitution detail, was talking to DiPaulo about 9: 15 p.m. in a car at St. Paul and Read streets. She left the undercover car after telling Bowman that "she had just seen her regular date driving in the area,'' according to court documents.

Police said DiPaulo ran across the street to a 1992 Mercedes, registered to Sinclair, and got in on the passenger side. Police followed the car onto the Jones Falls Expressway, where they said they witnessed the two engage in oral sex while Smith drove north.

Since Sinclair felt it was in the public interest to discuss BJ's and the President of the US, surely discussing BJs and the president of Sinclair is equally in the publics' interest.