6.20.2004

CBS' double standard: CBS refused to air Adbusters' Buy Nothing Day ads because, as Robert Lowary wrote in '97, the network's "policy precludes accepting commercial advertising that takes an advocacy position on one side of a controversial issue of public importance and urges the viewer to take action in this regard." They refused to run commercials for PETA and MoveOn during the 2004 Super Bowl for the same reason. Yet they're apparently perfectly fine running an ad bashing Bill Clinton, timed to coincide with Clinton's appearance on 60 Minutes tonight. The ad, by Citizen's United, the rightwing flaks who got the infamous Reagan biopic pulled from CBS' airwaves for being mildly critical, essentially blames Clinton for today's terrorism. Learn more, and find a link to contact CBS, at Media Matters for America. And: Putting the ass in Compassionate Conservative, Fox's Bill O'Reilly tells his fans, "I don't have any respect by and large for the Iraqi people at all. I have no respect for them. I think that they're a prehistoric group... They're just people who are primitive."

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