Sunday, August 21, 2005

The Globe and Mail: TV station refuses anti-war ad



Sunday, August 21, 2005 Updated at 8:40 AM EDT

Associated Press

Salt Lake City — A Utah television station is refusing to air an anti-war ad featuring Cindy Sheehan, whose son's death in Iraq prompted a vigil outside U.S. President George W. Bush's Texas ranch.

The ad began airing on other area stations Saturday, two days before Mr. Bush was scheduled to speak in Salt Lake City to the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

A national sales representative for KTVX, a local ABC affiliate, rejected the ad in an e-mail to media buyers, writing that it was an “inappropriate commercial advertisement for Salt Lake City.”

In the ad, Ms. Sheehan pleads with Mr. Bush for a meeting and accuses him of lying to the American people about Iraq's development of weapons of mass destruction and its connection to al-Qaeda.

// posted by Unknown @ 11:09 p.m.
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