CNN Privately Pressed Cable Operators Not To Run Ad Attacking Lou Dobbs

[RandySF]

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/

I’m told by a CNN source that the network privately pressed cable operators not to run the Media Matters ad attacking Dobbs, which pilloried his ongoing footsie with the birthers as CNN’s “Lou Dobbs problem.”

Media Matters had previously booked a week’s worth of ad time on MSNBC, Fox, and CNN — during Dobbs’ show.

The pressure, which came before CNN publicly acknowledged that they were nixing the ad, suggests that the network may have been more rattled by the campaign against Dobbs — and by the prospect of public criticism of Dobbs running on the network — than has been previously known. The network may have hoped to shut down the ad without being publicly associated with that effort.

[sasquatch]

1. CNN stands for freeper bullshit

[FLAprogressive]

2. K&R

[cliffordu]

3. K&R

[Sebastian Doyle]

4. I'm not surprised that CNN wouldn't run the ad on their own network

Wouldn't make sense for them to condemn their own financial interests, I guess. But they don't have any right to censor anyone else's content.

[WCGreen]

5. Fuck 'em...

Censorship, pure and simple.

You know if Dobbs had taken a liberal stand, they would have gladly bent over and taken the whole thing in with a smile...

[City Lights]

6. Exactly!

:argh:

[tabasco]

7. CNN = Fox

Turn that shit off.

[tularetom]

8. They only cared because some repukes were turning against Dobbs

Running a media matters ad would make more wing nuts think CNN was (gasp) "liberal" and that would never do.

[NRaleighLiberal]

9. CNN = Certainly No News. Just bullshit.