According to NextGen Climate Action, the group that created and paid for the ad, the commercial was submitted early and met all of the guideline standards. However, local affiliate WRC/NBC in Washington waited until the evening of the show to tell the organization it would not be airing the commercial after all. Now, NextGen is challenging WRC/NBC to furnish a sworn affidavit that big oil companies did not impact the station’s choice to drop the ad. “Given that we complied with the station’s process, the fact that the ad is accurate in exposing TransCanada’s representation regarding the Keystone Pipeline and WRC/NBC’s history of taking advertising petro-dollars, something simply does not smell right here,” said Executive Director of NextGen Climate Action, Tom Adams. “The public deserves to know whether WRC/NBC is censoring this ad because of actions by TransCanada or the fossil fuel industry’s $153 million in television ad spending.” Read more: care2/causes/why-was-an-anti-keystone-pipeline-ad-censored.html#ixzz2bgvGJgqu
Posted on: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 19:41:44 +0000
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