Posted on 12/08/2007 6:03:10 PM PST by Kaslin
WASHINGTON -- NBC reversed course Saturday and decided to air a conservative group's television ad thanking U.S. troops.
The ad, by the group Freedom's Watch, asks viewers to remember the troops during the holiday season. NBC had refused to air the ad because it guides viewers to the Freedom's Watch Web site, which NBC said was too political.
But in a statement issued Saturday evening, NBC said:
"We have reviewed and changed our ad standards guidelines and made the decision that our policy will apply to content only and not to a referenced Web site. Based on these amended standards the Freedom's Watch ad will begin to run as early as Sunday.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Not to worry - NBC will make certain to run two liberal Dem backed ads for every conservative Pub ad they run. Before this is all over, they will have more than compensated for this forced capitulation. Just give it time . . . .
NBC - Nothing But Crap...
If I were the “conservative group”...I wouldn’t waste the money to put the “ads” on that network...
Even after this hypocritical reversal...
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