{"id":2197,"date":"2010-07-19T13:52:27","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T20:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=2197"},"modified":"2010-07-19T13:52:27","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T20:52:27","slug":"fox-news-rejects-ad-from-veterans-group-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=2197","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Rejects Ad From Veterans Group (Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/object>For the second time, Fox News has rejected an advertisement from VoteVets, a veterans advocacy organization. The ad featured retired Brigadier Gen. Steven Anderson explaining the importance of moving the country to cleaner energy from domestic sources.<\/p>\n

“Our enemies know that we’re hooked on their oil…That’s why breaking our addiction must not only be a military priority, but America’s mission, and why the Senate needs to pass a clean energy climate plan. It will put Americans to work developing new energy technologies that will save lives overseas, make us less dependent and more secure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The previous time<\/a> that Fox News refused an ad from VoteVets they claimed that it would be “too confusing”<\/i> for their audience. Well, they oughta know. At that time I wrote…<\/p>\n

The confusion that Fox is worried about is that their carefully trained viewers might wind up agreeing with these vets that our security is threatened by enriching our enemies in Iran and other unfriendly oil oligarchs. This ad could undo so much of Fox’s painstakingly hypnotic propagandizing.<\/p>\n

So Fox’s solution is to censor the ad and protect their gullible audience from hearing any argument that might conflict with the Fox News world view. Fox undoubtedly regards this as their obligation to shield their viewers from the anxiety of having to think for themselves. Heaven knows that’s often confusing and so does Fox’s standards and practices department.<\/p>\n

What Fox didn’t say is that Saudi oil tycoon, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, owns 7 percent of News Corp. He is the largest shareholder outside the Murdoch family. That wouldn’t have anything to do with Fox’s reluctance to air an ad proposing to reduce expenditures on Middle-East oil, would it? Or is this just confusing the matter?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I concur with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the second time, Fox News has rejected an advertisement from VoteVets, a veterans advocacy organization. The ad featured retired Brigadier Gen. Steven Anderson explaining the importance of moving the country to cleaner energy from domestic sources. “Our enemies know that we’re hooked on their oil…That’s why breaking our addiction must not only be a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,789,107],"class_list":["post-2197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-fox-news","tag-prince-alwaleed-bin-talal","tag-votevets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-zr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":631,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=631","url_meta":{"origin":2197,"position":0},"title":"Clear Channel Refuses VoteVets Ad","author":"Mark NC","date":"10\/4\/2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Radio giant Clear Channel Communications is refusing to air an ad by VoteVets, a veterans group protesting Rush Limbaugh's recent assertion that vets who oppose the war in Iraq are \"phony soldiers.\" VoteVets received a letter explaining that the ad would not run because: \"Airing anti-Rush Limbaugh ads during the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Censorship"","block_context":{"text":"Censorship","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=56"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1638,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1638","url_meta":{"origin":2197,"position":1},"title":"Fox News Is Afraid Of Confusing Their Viewers","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/5\/2010","format":false,"excerpt":"An advertisement from VoteVets that promotes clean energy was rejected by Fox News, although it is currently running on CNN and MSNBC. 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