Clear Channel Bombs Billboard

maybe we should all grab the "rejected image" and put it on our sites?
just a thought.

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Monday, July 12, 2004
Clear Channel Bombs Billboard

[check out these images]
Rejected image (+ bomb) vs. accepted version (+ dove) via NYTimes.

via NPR:
Clear Channel Nixes Anti-war Billboard
Project Billboard, a fledgling non-partisan group whose mission is to
stimulate public debate, files a preliminary injunction against Clear
Channel in a New York court. The group is trying to force the media giant
to run its ad on a prime billboard in Times Square. Clear Channel
allegedly rejected it because of its anti-war political message. Hear
NPR's Steve Inskeep.

via NYTimes:
A group of antiwar advocates is accusing Clear Channel Communications, one
of the nation's largest media companies, with close ties to national
Republicans, of preventing the group from displaying a Times Square
billboard critical of the war in Iraq.

The billboard - an image of a red, white and blue bomb with the words
"Democracy Is Best Taught by Example, Not by War" - was supposed to go up
next month, the antiwar group said, and it was to be in place when
Republicans from across the country gathered in New York City to nominate
President Bush for a second term.

other articles:

Newsday
New York Daily News
San Francisco Chronicle
The Sydney Morning Herald

Monday, July 12, 2004 at 10:22 AM in Current Affairs