ABC Rejects Ad From Al Gore's Climate Group

Grist:

An environmental action group founded by former vice president Al Gore is accusing ABC of censoring an advocacy ad the group paid to air on the network.

The Alliance for Climate Protection late Wednesday sent an e-mail blast to supporters with the ominous subject line, "ABC won't air our ad."

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Comments

[darthdarcy]

ABC should be ashamed...­it's not really a network anyway and since Peter Jennings is gone they lost their intellectual and moral center and any integrity they once had..!

[Whinger]

In time the sky is going to fall on their heads, right now Al you're being censored by big business!

[nellie]

ABC, head in the sand, fingers in your wallet.

[hypnotoad72]

Maybe ABC knows something others don't.

Or maybe ABC knows Al Gore's personal life and life on the board of directors of a company that is still largely wasteful and required CONSUMERS to complain instead of him acting proactively are a hypocrisy to his own words.

[desertbloom]

This in NOT about Al Gore's personal inconsistencies -- we ALL have them.

This is about CENSORSHIP. Along with the matter of whether or not we survive on this planet.

[yellowdogminnesotan]

But yet ABC will air ads that are out right lies, not misleading, out right lies. Obama is trying to teach your kindergardners sex, Obama voted against funding the troops. Obama pals around with domestic terrorists. Shame on you AGAIN ABC. I guess the George Stephanus / Charley Gibson debate wasn't enough.

[SeekerOne]

When Christmas and vacation time rolls around, parents and grandparents who care about global warming should remember that this is DISNEY.

[desertbloom]

Excellent point!

[testerwebbdemocrat]

ABC is the flagship network of Rush Limbaugh
ABC is the owner of the USC/Ohio St infomercial network, better known as ESPN
ABC should now merge with Fox, because both their news orgs have the credibility of a Disney cartoon

[desertbloom]

CNN News Briefs, at the top of the radio hour, also have begun to sound like FOX Noise. Perhaps they all derive their news strickly from press releases from the White House and the McCain campaign.

This morning those CNN briefs said very little about the Troopergate report and conclusions. Did you also notice how the press information was dropped at the end of the day on Friday? The dead zone for news.

[PKSSK]

Another reason to not watch ABC, the MSM Fox News channel!!!

[NoSillyName]

Utter crap.

[karela]

That ad was rejected because ABC either gets money from big oil or because they're afraid of big oil. All political ads are controversial because there are two sides to every argument, but this one does not fall into the side of being inappropriate. What's with ABC and big oil?

[rockyb26]

Bull.

[MrsPeel]

I'm going to do all the boycott suggestions posted here. I urge other folks to do the same, and to let ABC know.

Perhaps we can make a difference for the ad; at least they'll know our voices are out here. Also, helps with overall pushback against MSM.

Does anyone know why Obama didn't purchase a half hour on ABC -- just CBS and NBC? Is it related?

[dhertzfe]

Has to do with sports possibly at that time.

[jonstirling]

I'm signing up for the boycott. Goodbye ABC & Disney. I want to suggest parents boycott all their media outlets also, including Radio Disney. Kids shouldn't be sold on their crap anyways. Its like Twinkies, just rots your teeth and has no value.

[123dee]

It has become increasingly apparent ABC is part of to the neo con right, the first indicator
for me should have been the unwillingness of The View to shut Elzabeth Hasselbeck up
with her constant hate talk. I really don't have much to lose as far as TV viewing,
So count me in on the boycott.

[DuPageDem]

Time for pirate broadcasters to blot out the corporate airwaves and take back the people's spectrum. Maybe then Congress will restore the FCC to its original purpose.