On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:43:56 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:

Media control in the style of Russia and China: ABC and NBC refuse to
run anti-Obama-healthcare advertisement by League of American
Voters...

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009...lth-care-plan/

http://www.thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?t=3946

You are such a terribly scared rabbit, Jim. I wonder why.

Fox itself has refused to run a lot of ads from all sides of issues.
Sometimes, without cause. For example, they refused to run an
anti-Obama ad back in 2008 when the American Issues Project tried to
link Obama and Bill Ayers from Weathermen fame. So even Fox refuses
to run anti-Obama stuff _before_ he was the US President.

Recently, an ad trying to paint the medical insurance industry poorly
(which would work in favor of Obama's goals, if played) has also been
refused by CNN:

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/he...ance-industry/

Besides all that, various networks have refused to run quite a variety
of ads from all over the political spectrum. Not only recently, but
all through the prior Bush administration and, yes, even decades
before that. This is by no means the first time... nor the last.

Many ads from the left side have also been refused. Including the one
listed above regarding medical insurance issues and the current
political debate about health coverage options.

For quite some time now, there has been the largely unchallenged
"rule" that television networks are free from any constitutional
scrutiny regarding decisions that allocate time for ads. The
precedent is CBS v. Democratic National Committee, a U.S. Supreme
Court decision back in 1973 (before cable) that was explicitly
premised upon the FCC actively deployed Fairness Doctrine.

That decision needs to be reviewed, I think, because the FCC abandoned
that doctrine in 1987 and therefore the premise is no longer true.

There is nothing new here except your prejudice and fears about _this_
administration. Otherwise, you'd have been all over the many prior,
similar "injustices."

Jon