“We do not accept advertising on one side or the other of controversial public issues, partly because we don’t think the debate ought to be controlled by people with deep pockets,” said Martin Franks, CBS executive vice president.
You can feel the irony oozing from his pores, when GWB has raised over $100MM to run without primary competition.
Categories: In the News
10:50 am | 1 comment
January 17th, 2004 at 11:13 pm
This is also the network that pulled the Reagan biopic because of conservative complaints that it wasn’t 100% accurate (in their objective recollection of Reagan’s record).
Seems they’ve found their backbone when it comes to the liberal groups. It’s also unfortunate that the AP story decided that the MoveOn.org ad is a “Bush-bashing” ad… it doesn’t “bash” Bush… it just asks a very relevant, cogent, and intelligent question about deficit spending.