CBS – Content Banishment Syndicate
Posted on:: January 14th, 2004
Advertising Age writes:
Anti-Bush Ad Contest Submits Super Bowl Commercial. A spokesman for CBS said the Viacom-owned network has received the request from MoveOn to run the ad in the Super Bowl, but added that the ad has to go through standards and practices before CBS will say if it can run an advocacy ad during the game. The spokesman said he didn’t think it was likely that the spot would pass standards and practices.
Have you seen the ad, the one that won MoveOn.org’s contest? What possible standard or practice does it violate? Is our country stronger because a TV network refuses to air an ad because it criticizes our president?
(Thanks to Dan Gillmor and Sheila Lennon.
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