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World Can’t Wait: Metro NY Refused WCW Ads (9/21/07)
The New York Times' capitulation to Senate censure for running an ad critical of General Petraeus apparently has furthered "the chill Bush is trying to send through the advertising world"—where free speech can't even be bought at regular rates anymore.On Thursday [September 19] Metro newspaper in New York City refused to run an ad headlined “Who Is the Real Nuclear Threat” from the World Can’t Wait—Drive Out the Bush regime in its September 21 issue. The reason given by the publisher was that the content was “too inflammatory” for the prominent back page. On Friday, a second ad, “One Million Dead in Iraq,” was first rejected for placement on the September 25 back page explicitly because of its content. Then they offered placement on the back page at a price almost four times higher than what was originally agreed upon.
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