NBC Decides to Run Conservative-Group Ad

[Poiuyt]

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

The ad, by the group Freedom's Watch, asks viewers to remember the troops during the holiday season. NBC had refused to air the ad because it guides viewers to the Freedom's Watch Web site, which NBC said was too political.

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."

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NBC initially said that airing the spot would violate the network's prohibition on controversial issue ads. Wurtzel, in an interview Friday with The Associated Press, said NBC found nothing wrong with the ad's content, but rather objected to the link to http://www.FreedomsWatch.org, viewing the Web site as too political.

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News of NBC's initial rejection caused an angry reaction on the Internet. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, appearing on the Fox News Channel on Friday, called for a boycott of NBC.

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http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hTMokDMiXMd0XcDrQi83NoM18K4QD8TDIR6G4

I guess NBC's policy is to only refuse ads from liberal groups

[EFerrari]

1. This group isn't even a group. It's a front.

Someone made a phone call.

[lurky]

2. Who are they, anyway?

Where do they get the $Millions needed to run those ads, and why are they so eager to get people to look at their dumb website? I <shudder> checked out their page </shudder>, and it was pretty boring and content-free even by Con standards. Lots of eagle pictures, if you're into that.

:shrug:

[Poiuyt]

3. That's Ari Fleisher's group

They've been putting ads on TV saying how wonderful the Bush's War is

[EFerrari]

5. It's so bizarre when you think about it. The same bunch of corporations

are pretending to be 1)the free press and 2)a citizens' action group to create the illusion of democratic process.

Can it get any more screwy than that? :shrug:

[EFerrari]

4. I wrote this blurb, some info here.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_elizabet_071001_is_freedom_s_watch_p.htm