CBS will air Bush Super Bowl ad, but not opposition's

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 19:13:02 -0700
From: Brett Glass <brett () lariat org>
Subject: CBS will air Bush Super Bowl ad, but not opposition's
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Dave:

This just in: Television ads to be run during this year's Super Bowl will 
include messages from beer companies, tobacco companies, and George W. 
Bush's re-election campaign, but will NOT include an ad from an 
organization which opposes Bush's re-election. Ironically, the ad, which 
criticises Bush's domestic economic policies, echoes the concerns of many 
fiscal conservatives on both sides of the aisle.

This is the second recent incident in which CBS -- which will benefit from 
a rider attached at the Administration's behest to just-passed budget 
legislation allowing greater concentration of media ownership -- has 
repressed content which might displease supporters of the current 
administration. (In November of 2003, the network refused to run a movie 
which, some say, contained unflattering portayals of former Republican 
president Ronald Reagan.)

For more information on this unexpected move (which, frankly, should very 
troubling to all of us regardless of political affiliation), see:

http://www.moveon.org/news/2278.html
http://www.mediareform.net/media/
http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/040120/15/3hem8.html
<http://www.moveon.org/r?482>http<http://www.moveon.org/r?482>://www.moveon.org/r?482

--Brett Glass




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