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This article is on Drudge. What's the feeling out there on this subject? Anything we can do? Freep ABC?

I'm new at this, so forgive any screwups.

1 posted on 09/17/2004 7:49:30 PM PDT by Tucker39
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Those guys are true heroes. Give 'em hell!


2 posted on 09/17/2004 7:51:07 PM PDT by dr_who_2
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Seems to boil down to: was it a news making event? If so, they could use the footage.


3 posted on 09/17/2004 7:51:33 PM PDT by gilliam
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This is the only way one of the major networks would ever mention the SBVT ads. Good strategery.


4 posted on 09/17/2004 7:51:52 PM PDT by Dilbert56
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I'm not thrilled with this ad. It looks like Kerry's words are being manipulated through selective editing. I would re-edit it and drop the video.


5 posted on 09/17/2004 7:52:50 PM PDT by js1138 (Speedy architect of perfect labyrinths.)
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a. The SBVFT leaders include some very sharp lawyers.

b. At the very least they can say they'll consider the ABC
request, and they'll watch how a similar complaint by NBC
against a Dem 527 is resolved.


6 posted on 09/17/2004 7:53:35 PM PDT by Boundless
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The Swifties have a great attorney, Ginsburg, who used to be one of the attorneys for the White House.

Best thing we can do is to send them money.


9 posted on 09/17/2004 7:56:59 PM PDT by FairOpinion (FIGHT TERRORISM! VOTE BUSH/CHENEY 2004.)
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A new ad from a group of Vietnam War veterans who oppose Sen. John Kerry's presidential candidacy uses footage from an ABC News broadcast to buttress its claims that Kerry has given conflicting explanations about military awards he publicly threw away in 1971.

ABC News executives objected immediately to the ad, which Swift Boat Veterans for Truth said it plans to air in two Western states.

ABC News may not produce the truth but has a problem with those who do?

10 posted on 09/17/2004 7:57:00 PM PDT by Libloather (After all these years, Jim Robinson, AT LEAST, owes me a new car...)
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I'm starting to think these Swiftvets are strategic geniuses. No wonder they've gotten so much out of their relatively-modest budget. They seem to have mastered the art of getting leverage for their stories by using the MSM as a fulcrum.

Sure, go ahead, ABC, make a controversy out of this. By the time ABC gets an injunction to make the Swiftees stop using the footage, the publicity the ad will get from the effort to silence them will be worth millions.

Swiftees, you are patriots. Stand and deliver.


12 posted on 09/17/2004 7:58:39 PM PDT by OhMike (He which hath no stomach to this fight, let him depart...we would not die in that man's company.)
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Note how they aint SUEING!


14 posted on 09/17/2004 7:59:58 PM PDT by funkywbr
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I'm trying to figure out what is the property of ABC given that the airwaves are the property of the people of America for which the networks are under obligation to provide a fair and open hearing of political issues of interest.

In other words, they don't own the airwaves. We do.

They are granted permission to use. (And some licensing fee???)

Permission is partially granted in exchange for ABC airing political discourse.

I'm not sure their program of one of the candidates in the election is their property. I think it's in response to fulfilling their obligation.

Anyone agree with me?

15 posted on 09/17/2004 8:00:41 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army and Proudly Supporting BUSH/CHENEY 2004!)
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All ABC will achieve is to give the Swift Boat Vets a lot of free publicity as the story percolates through the media.


18 posted on 09/17/2004 8:07:45 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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I wonder what the people at the Sales Division of ABC Corporation think about what the people at ABC News are trying to do here?$?$?$?$?$


19 posted on 09/17/2004 8:11:41 PM PDT by embedded_rebel
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Make CBS take them to Court, The Ad will get all kinds of free publicity :-)


21 posted on 09/17/2004 8:15:30 PM PDT by MJY1288 (John Kerry Says He Can Do a Better Job of Implementing President Bush's Policies :-))
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Welcome to FR. We sure have a lot of new folks around here -- it's great.

It almost reminds me of good old days of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal -- gosh, those were good times!


22 posted on 09/17/2004 8:16:12 PM PDT by 68skylark
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Bring it on ABC, we're ready for ya!


25 posted on 09/17/2004 8:23:14 PM PDT by GalaxieFiveHundred
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Sorry, but ABC is right on this one.

It's their property used without authorisation.


28 posted on 09/17/2004 8:38:41 PM PDT by Wil H
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So ABC, sue the SBVfT, it will guarantee full media coverage with snips of the ad. It will generate more exposure than the SBVfT could afford to pay for similiar tube time.

Has the DNC taken down their ad featuring news clips from both CBS and NBC? I remember they have both asked DNC to pull the ad, but last I heard, DNC said they will think about doing it.


32 posted on 09/17/2004 8:52:36 PM PDT by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
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I am sort of hoping that ABC turns this into a big deal. If they do that, more people will see the ad. I wonder if ABC is that dumb?


33 posted on 09/17/2004 8:52:46 PM PDT by dmc8576 (High School Students for Bush - 325 members ....Students for Kerry - 20 members. ENOUGH SAID!!!)
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Bush may regret allowing Charles Gibson be a moderator.


39 posted on 09/17/2004 9:15:32 PM PDT by Finalapproach29er ({about the news media} "We'll tell you any sh** you want hear" : Howard Beale --> NETWORK)
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Hey, thanks for reminding us about the www.Swiftvets.com

They have a new ad up on the site, too!!

Thanks ABC


43 posted on 09/17/2004 9:42:37 PM PDT by treeclimber ("We will hunt the terrorists in every dark corner of the earth. We will be relentless." GWB 2001)
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