{"id":2613,"date":"2010-08-20T01:20:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T08:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2613"},"modified":"2010-08-20T01:20:59","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T08:20:59","slug":"msnbc-says-no-to-moveon-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/20\/msnbc-says-no-to-moveon-org\/","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC Says No to MoveOn.org"},"content":{"rendered":"

MSNBC is my favorite news channel, because they are the most balanced.  Their straight news is straight news, and they offer a balance if commentators from Pat Buchannan to Rachel Maddow.  I was, therefore, surprised that they refused an ad from MoveOn.org.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"20target-no\"<\/a> MoveOn has hit a bump in the road for its anti-Target ad<\/a>, which calls for a boycott of the company as a result of its $150,000 donation to a business group running ads for Minnesota Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer. MSNBC, the liberal-branded national cable channel where MoveOn hoped to air the ad, has instead rejected it.<\/p>\n

An MSNBC spokeswoman told the Associated Press<\/a> that the spot violates the channel’s policy against ads that directly attack an individual business<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It’s not all bad news for MoveOn, though. The group says that local TV stations in the Twin Cities market are running the ad\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Here\u2019s the ad itself:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Considering the source, it it quite low key, as MoveOn has often taken a more in your face<\/em> approach.  There is nothing here that could rightly be considered distasteful.<\/font><\/p>\n

For now, I\u2019m watching and, if I see ever see an ad on MS-NBC that directly attacks an entity of any kind (except Faux Noise<\/em> ;-)), this story will come back.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MSNBC is my favorite news channel, because they are the most balanced.  Their straight news is straight news, and they offer a balance if commentators from Pat Buchannan to Rachel Maddow.  I was, therefore, surprised that they refused an ad from MoveOn.org. MoveOn has hit a bump in the road for its anti-Target ad, which […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}