{"id":966,"date":"2008-07-03T17:48:21","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T00:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=966"},"modified":"2008-07-03T17:48:21","modified_gmt":"2008-07-04T00:48:21","slug":"philadelphia-radio-station-blocks-democratic-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=966","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Radio Station Blocks Democratic Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/param><\/param><\/object>The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has produced a radio ad for broadcast in 13 Republican held House districts. In the Philadelphia district served by Jim Gerlach KYW-AM is refusing to air<\/a> this ad.<\/p>\n

The advertisement features a George W. Bush impersonator pretending to be talking to the Republican representative and thanking him for standing by the administration’s agenda on behalf of Big Oil and the “Grand Oil Party.”<\/em> But apparently that’s too much for the tender sensibilities of KYW’s audience, at least according to its general manager, David Yadgaroff.<\/p>\n

“As an all-news station, we were concerned that our listeners would have been misled by usage of an impersonator in the creative delivery.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Were I a Philly resident, I would be insulted by Yadgaroff’s condescension. Does he really believe that his audience is too stupid to figure out that this is a political ad? More importantly, does he have such disrespect for his community that he would engage in wholesale censorship based on such a disparaging assertion? Apparently so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has produced a radio ad for broadcast in 13 Republican held House districts. In the Philadelphia district served by Jim Gerlach KYW-AM is refusing to air this ad. The advertisement features a George W. Bush impersonator pretending to be talking to the Republican representative and thanking him for standing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56,1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-general","tag-dccc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-fA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32462,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=32462","url_meta":{"origin":966,"position":0},"title":"Trump Campaign Linked To Russian Hacking Of DNC, FBI Asked To Investigate","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/31\/2016","format":false,"excerpt":"In the days leading up to the Democratic National Convention reports that the party's computer networks were hacked threatened to derail the entire affair. 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