Focus on the Family Super Bowl ad

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Focus on the Family Super Bowl ad
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Mon, 01-25-2010 - 1:33pm

And email I received from Care2.  I will boycott the Super Bowl should they show Focus on the Family's ad.  I'm very disappointed in CBS.

In the past, CBS has denied other organizations, like MoveOn.org and United Church of Christ, the chance to get their word out during the Superbowl because the network considered their messages to be too controversial. But it seems its definition of "controversial" has changed. CBS approved an ad by the ultra-conservative group Focus on the Family, attacking a woman's right to choose.

Demand that CBS pull this controversial and disrespectful ad from the Superbowl line-up >>


The Superbowl is the most-watched television program in the country -- a prime opportunity for anti-choice groups to broadcast their idea that a woman doesn't have the right to make decisions about her own body. What's worse is CBS has no plans to run a pro-choice ad to balance both sides of the issue.


CBS's decision to run the anti-choice ad is biased, unfair and unethical. Tell CBS to cancel the Superbowl ad from Focus on the Family >>






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Mon, 02-08-2010 - 9:12am
FoF did have their web site boldly displayed at the end of the commercial. I'm guessing not too many rushed to their computers, or whatever, & checked out the site as they were there to watch the game.

 


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Tue, 02-09-2010 - 3:02am

~After seeing it I'm not quite sure what all the hoopla was about. It was simply a mother saying...~

It also directs viewers to the website of Focus on the Family (quite a horrible group IMHO) to learn more, something the network would not have aired in the past.

(I gather that they changed their policy due to revenue issues during the economic crisis, but it did interest me that they'd done so.)

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Tue, 02-09-2010 - 2:50pm

(I gather that they changed their policy due to revenue issues during the economic crisis, but it did interest me that they'd done so.)


Nope. They denied other ads...most notable one from a gay dating/matchmaking website.


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Registered: 12-16-2009
Tue, 02-09-2010 - 7:46pm

Oh, okay... I'd thought that the spots were filled when they turned that one down.

Re: last minute editing, you could be right about that, too.

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