NBC reverses decision on Freedom Watch ad

The Drudge Report ^ | December 8, 2007 | Matt Drudge

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**Under pressure from outraged viewers, NBC has reversed its decision not to air the Freedom's Watch ads thanking troops... Developing...

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This just in...

[SandRat]

PING!

Power To The People!

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I forgot to link this up in the breaking news sidebar. Could you do that please?

[purpleraine]

the peacock blushes

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ping

[SomeCallMeTim]

Whatever... better late, than never. NBC is exposed, and the good message gets out anyway. win-win!

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Can’t wait to hear the peacock’s spin on this thing, after making this abrupt about-face.

[xtinct]

Still not watching that dorkie peacock, Brian Williams.

Power to the People !!!!!

[Names Ash Housewares]

Not that it is a surprise at all.
But NBC showed it’s true colors once again.
And they were ugly.

They had to be shamed into running the ad.

I can’t believe they didn’t think people would not be outraged.

[kjo]

Their original decision to ban an ad, at Christmas, thanking Americans overseas for protecting us was crazy to begin with.

Only complete and total Bush and America haters could have done it in the first place.

NBC has outed itself.

[Old Seadog]

"Heh, heh. I knew dey'd comes arounsk."

[joshhiggins]

"This just in" just a little too late. I already switched an order for GE electric motors over to Dayton electric motors.

Maybe they can recoup the loss by firing the idiot who caused me to switch suppliers.

[purpleraine]

Whatever you think of OReilly, he gets kudos for blasting NBC and the NY Times and others. He helped tear them a new one on this story.

[RayChuang88]

NBC probably caved into pressure from the blog storm of outraged conservatives.

[Joann37]

I’m migrating away from GE as well. As a longtime GE appliance customer, I’m now buying Kitchen Aid as my appliances begin to need replacement.

[Stentor]

NBC probably caved into pressure from the blog storm of outraged conservatives.

Look to GE. I think Jeffrey had a word.

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Come get some.

[Loyal Buckeye]

Policies are made to be broken.

Even half-baked policies at NBC.

[torchthemummy]

As I said yesterday, NBC had created a precedent where any site deemed "too political" could be shut out. This meant that they would not be able to run ads (if they honored the aforementioned new standard) for moveon.org, media matters, etc. This, in hindsight, is too much of a cost to NBC's leftist advocacy.

So now they have reportedly backed down. This allows NBC to run moveon.org ads unfettered which is fine as long as conservative sites, groups can do the same. We exposed them so the genie is out of the bag. This is a win-win.

[penowa]

I doubt that they thought there would be much notice of their decision. It isn’t often that one network talks about what another network, their competitor, is or isn’t doing. This morning on Fox News, they debated this, showed the ad, read e-mails about NBC’s decision - did everything but give out the phone # of the Chairman of G. E., the parent co. of NBC, and tell their viewers to raise heck with him.