Fox Rejects "The Nation" Ad

[kskiska]

The Left Asked to Speak to the Right, But a Gatekeeper Wouldn't Hear of It
By DAVID CARR

The Fox News Channel, the highest-rated cable news network in the country, arrives this week at the Republican National Convention with an opportunity to serve up ample red meat for its core constituency.

A growing number of advertisers would like a piece of that audience, but The Nation, the left-leaning political magazine, will not be among them. Ten days ago, the ad agency for The Nation sent a 60-second commercial to the cable network promoting its brand of political news and commentary as free of White House influence and corporate agendas.

"Nobody owns The Nation. Not Time Warner, not Murdoch. So there's no corporate slant, no White House spin. Just the straight dope," the commercial says.

(snip)

"They rejected it out of hand," said Arthur Stupar, senior vice president for circulation at The Nation. "I find it ironic. They are the G.O.P. cable station, a champion of free markets, and they got spooked at the thought of running an ad that doesn't publish spin or serve the agenda of corporate conglomerates."

A spokesman for Fox News, which has always rejected the charge that it brings a partisan bias to news coverage, said, "We reject ads all the time," and declined further comment.

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http://nytimes.com/2004/08/30/business/media/30fox.html

[bamacrat]

1. of course

the truth kills the right. if it doesn't aggrandize some conservative Nazi for trying to hike up the price of drugs or limit the amounts of freedoms we have then its not news. high unemployment, national debt, Americans dying in the name of dubya, thats not real to them. to them the "liberal media" is creating all this to trash bush. what morons.

[tom_paine]

2. Not morons...Totalitarians

Which makes them much more dangerous to you and I than simple morons.

Would that they were simple morons.

Instead they are Propaganda geniuses who have almost singlehandedly brought Lying Pravda to Amerika.

[highnooner]

3. Did the contact CNN, MSNBC, etc?

Just wondering. It's difficult to make a case unless one has been accepted/rejected elsewhere.

[tom_paine]

4. Yes, and those institutions have accepted it

There is still a very mild lip service to Old American Values (ie the right to be heard) at the other Pravda Stations.

VERY mild and most often NEVER followed through on in their own reporting.

[michaelwb]

5. Interesting

Didn't the Nation once have an ad on the back cover for Fox news?

[Mixxster]

6. Yes.

From the above article:

Executives at The Nation were hoping that Fox News would be more accommodating, especially because the network has bought an ad in the newest issue of The Nation, which will be coming out during the convention.

And last year, Fox News purchased a back-page ad in The Nation, an action that prompted 50 readers to cancel their subscriptions in protest of the magazine taking what they considered tainted money. After reading of the controversy, Fox News promptly purchased another.

[depakid]

7. Time to yank Murdoch's broadcast licenses

Frankly, I'd rather revoke his ill gotten citizenship, but divesting newscorp of its affiliates will do.

[LawDem]

8. Sorry, but I love it.

I'm one of The Nation readers who wasn't put out by the Fox add. If Murdock wants to waste his money supporting the struggling progressive media, I say "go for it, big guy." It isn't like Nation readers are going to buy into what the add says.

But now we have the ultimate proof (as though we needed more), not just that Fox is biased, but also that it's gutless. Perfect!