NBC Decides to Run Conservative-Group Ad

[Purveyor]

Source: Washington Post

December 8, 2007; 6:47 PM

WASHINGTON -- NBC reversed course Saturday and decided to air a conservative group's television ad thanking U.S. troops.

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But in a statement issued Saturday evening, NBC said:

"We have reviewed and changed our ad standards guidelines and made the decision that our policy will apply to content only and not to a referenced Web site. Based on these amended standards the Freedom's Watch ad will begin to run as early as Sunday."

NBC' head of standards and practices, Alan Wurtzel, notified Freedom's Watch's media consultant Saturday by e-mail, writing: "This will confirm that the Freedom's Watch spot is approved for air."



Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/08/AR2007120801250.html

[annabanana]

1. Has any network ever changed their mind and decided to run

a move-on ad they had previously decided was "inappropriate"?

[EFerrari]

22. FW is Ari Fleischer's group. It's fronting for BushCo/PNAC

propaganda and pretending to be a citizens' group.

[Mojambo]

2. Shocking! n/t

[Newsjock]

3. Moveon better submit their ad Monday morning

I hope they've got the video monkeys working overtime this weekend.

[Doctor_J]

4. NBC wouldn't run an ad from MoveOn

If they were to announce they were going to, the same fascists who got this one reinstated would get the MoveOn one pulled.

Nazis run the country, including the airwaves.

[krkaufman]

17. Yeah, but I'm thinking MoveOn needs to create a totally Happy-Happy...

... Joy-Joy ad about the glory of being an American, with praise of habeus corpus, government transparency, etc. -- with no *direct* criticism of current government policies or mention of the B word -- then provide a link to their website.

[JustDavid]

12. Does MoveOn

have an ad that thanks the troops?

[Maccagirl]

13. MoveOn doesn't cloak itself in the flag and "patriotism."

And I am one who has been critical of they're execution (if not the message) in the past. This is pure pandering on NBC's part.

[Rebellious Republican]

16. Is that all conservatives have left, wrap themselves in the flag.

Duke Cunningham, Mark Foley, Larry Craig, Ted (the Meth head) Haggard, Jack Abramoff, Valerie Plame, Richard Roberts, Abu Ghraib, Destruction of CIA Torture tapes, and thats just for starters. The list is so much longer, I would get carpel tunnel if I kept on typing!

Who cares, let them run the add, they are done, everyone knows that FREEPERS are lying, thieving, pilfering, hypocritical, drug addicted, closet gay, pedophile ass wipes.

Did I miss anything?

[krkaufman]

18. I'm just glad that the NYT didn't call Freedom's Watch a "grassroots" group...

... as some in the media have in the past.

[ClintonTyree]

19. Sorry, but not everyone knows......

"that FREEPERS are lying, thieving, pilfering, hypocritical, drug addicted, closet gay, pedophile ass wipes". There are still over one third of the population that refuses to believe Bush and his pals are only looking to line their own pockets. They still believe he's a great president. :puke:

There's absolutely no way to reach that 1/3 though. Nothing or no one can shine the light of truth into their forever darkened craniums. They're hopeless.

[Rebellious Republican]

20. "There's absolutely no way to reach that 1/3 though"

That is so true,and the majority of those people are just in it for the money! They have absolutely no concerns about anything else. Sad to say, but I personally know some that have seen their personal wealth dwindle. That is the only thing that turned them against the Norquist/Rove Neocon machine. Many still do not understand that their party was hijacked by corporate elites.

:kick:

[mtnester]

21. If they had not planned on it before

I am sure they are now....betcha at some point today when I open my email, there weill be a notice from MoveOn asking me for $ for just this purpose.

I will merrily send it along...sometimes you simply have to prove a point.

[bluestateguy]

5. They know that if they whine, pout, kick, scream and stomp they will get what they want

This was just too predictable.

[tom_paine]

15. As predictable as the German media bowing to the Nazis.

You want to know what has been going on these last 10 years in this country, if not more (it's only been grotesquely obvious for the last eight years)?

Google "gleichschaltung".

That is the only word you need in order to understand, IMHO.

[tanyev]

6. I guess they got a call on the bat phone from Cheney.

[rainbow4321]

7. Chimp must have threatened to cancel GE's Pentagon contract

It was inches from the shredder and GE blinked.

[gratuitous]

8. Well, sure; violence must be worshipped

But try to air an ad that implies that Jesus would welcome gay folks? Not on your nelly.

[shaniqua6392]

9. It was probably all the pressure from Fixed News Channel.

They were really ripping on NBC last week for deciding not to run the ad.

[Wapsie B]

10. The thinly-veiled death threats probably made their decision easier.

That or anthrax.

[Cha]

11. Fine, except they won't run

moveon's ad, will they?

Are they making it more blatant that they are the military complex corporation?

[RadioactiveCarrot]

14. Well, now.

Clearly this is liberal media at work here!:sarcasm: -makes music by blowing on whiskey jug-
Brought to you by the fine folks of Murdoch inc. and General Electric. (and whoever owns the rest)

[TankLV]

23. I see - so it's not about "freedom" at all but CONTENT & CENSORSHIP.

Not everybody had equal rights to get on TV - we have to censor the message first...

[davidinalameda]

24. thank goodness that Heroes is done for the season

so I can stop watching NBC

[proud2BlibKansan]

25. Durn librul media

Oh wait. . .

[The Maestro]

26. NBC Wimps Out

Bill O must be laughing. After threatening to start a boycott
of NBC, they wimped out and decided to give air time to the
far-right to thank the troops. I have nothing but respect for
the men and women in harms way, but a news organization's role
is not to thank anyone. As Joe Friday said: Just the facts
maam.

[EFerrari]

27. Welcome to DU, The Maestro.

:)