Censorious or Sensitive? [1]
Submitted by Diane Farsetta [2] on
Clear Channel Communications [3] refused to display a peace group's billboard ad in New York's Times Square during the Republican Convention [4]. The ad features a red, white and blue bomb graphic with the words "Democracy Is Best Taught by Example, Not by War." The peace group says Clear Channel also rejected their alternative ad, in which a dove replaced the bomb graphic. (Clear Channel says they found the dove ad acceptable.) A Clear Channel marketing executive explained [5] that New Yorkers "are extremely sensitive to references to war." A peace group spokesperson remarked, "I guess we can have a war, but we can't talk about it."