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October 27, 2006

I Guess an Ad for “Death of a President” Would Be Out of the Question, Then.

by AltHippo @ 1:13 pm. Filed under Bush, hacks, Jingoism, propaganda

I have a problem. I’d like to be able to boycott the networks that refuse to air the ad for “Shut Up and Sing”, but I don’t see how I can watch the networks less than I already do. Now that I think about it, the audience demographic for an anti-administration documentary probably doesn’t spend much time on NBC, CBS, or ABC to begin with.

To badly paraphrase a line from the 1960’s: what if they gave a boycott, but nobody was planning to be there in the first place?

Anyway, I found the ad entertaining, and I for one plan to run their ad on my humble soap box.

There’s a serious aspect to this, which is what Glenn Greenwald is getting into here. As he puts it:

The very idea that it is in the “public interest” to prohibit ads that criticize the Leader is ludicrous on its face. The President is constantly given free airtime to argue his views and propagandize on virtually every issue, and the networks endlessly offer forums for his followers and surrogates to defend him.

Part of our democratic machinery are common spaces such as the public airwaves. At the point where they cease to serve the public, but instead serve the Republican party, they begin to erode our society. They should not be allowed to profit from that action.

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