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NBC reverses decision on Freedom Watch ad
The Drudge Report ^
| December 8, 2007
| Matt Drudge
Posted on 12/08/2007 11:47:12 AM PST by abb
**Under pressure from outraged viewers, NBC has reversed its decision not to air the Freedom's Watch ads thanking troops... Developing...
TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ads; advertising; biasmeanslayoffs; blogosphere; bushhassers; dbm; drudge; enemedia; freedomwatch; freemarkets; liberalmedia; mediabias; mediajihad; mslm; msm; nbc; newmedia; trysellingthetruth
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This just in...
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posted on
12/08/2007 11:47:14 AM PST
by
abb
To: STARWISE; StarCMC
PING!
Power To The People!
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posted on
12/08/2007 11:48:33 AM PST
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: Sidebar Moderator
I forgot to link this up in the breaking news sidebar. Could you do that please?
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posted on
12/08/2007 11:48:36 AM PST
by
abb
(The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
To: abb
To: 04-Bravo; aimhigh; andyandval; Arizona Carolyn; backhoe; Bahbah; bert; bilhosty; Caipirabob; ...
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posted on
12/08/2007 11:52:02 AM PST
by
abb
(The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
To: purpleraine
Whatever... better late, than never. NBC is exposed, and the good message gets out anyway. win-win!
To: abb
Can’t wait to hear the peacock’s spin on this thing, after making this abrupt about-face.
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posted on
12/08/2007 11:54:44 AM PST
by
Virginia Ridgerunner
(“We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!” --Duncan Hunter)
To: SandRat
Still not watching that dorkie peacock, Brian Williams.
Power to the People !!!!!
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posted on
12/08/2007 11:55:38 AM PST
by
xtinct
(I was the next door neighbor kid's imaginary friend.)
To: abb
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.
To: abb
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.
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posted on
12/08/2007 11:56:09 AM PST
by
kjo
To: abb
"Heh, heh. I knew dey'd comes arounsk."
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posted on
12/08/2007 11:58:04 AM PST
by
Old Seadog
(Inside every old person is a young person saying "WTF happened?".)
To: abb
"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.
To: SomeCallMeTim
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.
To: abb
NBC probably caved into pressure from the blog storm of outraged conservatives.
To: joshhiggins
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.
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posted on
12/08/2007 12:06:06 PM PST
by
Joann37
To: RayChuang88; joshhiggins
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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posted on
12/08/2007 12:07:28 PM PST
by
Stentor
To: Names Ash Housewares
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posted on
12/08/2007 12:08:03 PM PST
by
brivette
To: abb
Policies are made to be broken.
Even half-baked policies at NBC.
To: abb
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.
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posted on
12/08/2007 12:09:53 PM PST
by
torchthemummy
("A Tagline Presidential Endorsement Forfeits A Presumption Of Objectivity")
To: Names Ash Housewares
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.
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posted on
12/08/2007 12:13:07 PM PST
by
penowa
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