COMMERCIAL ALERT: CNN AT:10

[trof]

[Bill McBlueState]

1. didn't see it in the first commercial break

??

[trof]

2. NO MOVEON COMMERCIAL

?????????????

[Rainbowreflect]

3. Did they show it?

If they did we missed it.

[CalebHayes]

4. What? Where is it? What the HELL!!

[trof]

5. NOT THERE

SHIT

[Bluzmann57]

6. Where was the @!*# commercial?

Please don't tell me cnn sold out too.

[ThomWV]

7. Hell No They Didn't Show It

[CalebHayes]

8. Someone call Moveon.org

And ask what happened.

[Terwilliger]

9. I guess it comes on after this segment?

[cheezus]

10. CNN hasn't had break since end of half

so maybe it's coming up

[trof]

13. :10 BREAK WAS THERE

NO MOVEON

[latebloomer]

11. supposed to show also at 8:35

I wonder if it will.

[greyl]

12. Bastards! ! -second run at 8:35

according to the email. Let's hope.


email:
Dear MoveOn member,
The CBS networks still refuses to run our winning ad in the Bush in 30 Seconds ad contest during the Super Bowl. The MoveOn.org non-partisan campaign to get CBS to air issue ads continues, but we're not going to let CBS's censorship stop us in the mean time. That's why we're spending over $1 million to air the ad in our swing states and nation-wide on other channels -- starting with two spots on CNN that will air during the Super Bowl half time.

This Sunday, during the Super Bowl half time show, join us in changing channels on CBS. At 8:10pm and 8:35pm EST, switch over to CNN to watch "Child's Pay" on a channel which doesn't censor its ads. We'd like to keep a tally of the number of people who participate -- you can sign up here:
http://www.moveonvoterfund.org/boycott/?id=2293-3229527-6N1F0k_BL8tTLEMlaoRgfw

The number of groups, individuals, and newspapers that have called on CBS to run our ad is remarkable. The National Organization for Women and the American Civil Liberties Union have asked their own members to call CBS. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) gave a powerful speech about CBS on the floor of the Senate, saying, "Maybe network executives at CBS are so afraid of political pressure from the right wing and their business advertisers who are in league with the right wing politics of America that they are afraid to put anything on the air that might in fact make things uncomfortable. If that is the case, it is time for CBS to announce the name of their network is the 'Conservative Broadcasting System' and come clean with American viewers."

28 members of the House of Representatives wrote a letter to CBS which stated, "The choice not to run this paid advertisement appears to be part of a disturbing pattern on CBS's part to bow to the wishes of the Republican National Committee. We remember well CBS's remarkable decision this fall to self-censor at the direction of GOP pressure. The network shamefully cancelled a broadcast about former President Ronald Reagan which Republican partisans considered insufficiently flattering." Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) wrote a separate letter to CBS urging them to reconsider their decision.

Today, the L.A. Times printed an Op-Ed piece of ours which lays out the case against CBS's censorship. That's attached below. But the editorial pages of the Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, and many other papers came out in our favor as well. As the Globe wrote, "MoveOn.org's 30-second ad, which has aired on CNN, is a gentle yet powerful depiction of how hard today's children will have to work to pay off the country's mounting deficit. That's a vital message that might get lost in a year of campaign rhetoric, and it deserves a response from the White House in its own 30 seconds of imagery. America, sitting on the couch, junk food in hand, just might sit up and want to know more."

Luckily, there are still some networks that do allow the free exchange of ideas. Please join the one-minute boycott: at Super Bowl halftime, switch to CNN and watch "Child's Pay," and let us know at:
http://www.moveonvoterfund.org/boycott/?id=2293-3229527-6N1F0k_BL8tTLEMlaoRgfw

Thanks for all you do,
--Adam, Carrie, Eli, James, Joan, Laura, Noah, Peter, Wes, and Zack
The MoveOn.org Team
January 30th, 2003

[fairfaxvadem]

15. here it is!!

they just showed it...

Not as long as I'd have liked it to be

[greyl]

17. There it was. :) at 8:20 nt

[trof]

25. WELL FUCK THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I went back to the goddam super bowl.
I f they can't get it right, fuck 'em.
I AM PISSED!

[Bluzmann57]

28. WHAT! Not here.

Maybe mediacom censored it too. They showed some promo shit for mediacom cable. If these a**holes stopped it from airing, I will no longer subscribe to that "service". They are already too high priced as it is. Gonna contact them shortly.

[theoceansnerves]

14. halftime

it wasn't halftime at 8:10, maybe they're waiting for the actual halftime break.

[CalebHayes]

16. YEAH BABY!!!!

[Terwilliger]

21. what was that....10 seconds??

[Bill McBlueState]

18. just saw it

beautiful.

[latebloomer]

19. ALL RIGHT!!

Good one!

[Cheesehead]

20. There it was at :20 WTF?

N/t

[Beearewhyain]

22. I just missed the last few seconds of the first

half, where the Panthers scored with a few seconds left apparently, AND no F'ing commercial. :wtf:

If CNN sold out as well I am going to break something.


:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[Libby2]

23. It was just on n/t

.

[mike1963]

26. Crap, I missed it. Flipped back to CBS to see if halftime was going

:grr:

[Capn Sunshine]

24. YES!!!!

Just ran. The key was to switch at the halftime break.

That commercial rocks.

[AVID]

27. awesome ad

[jean]

29. we saw it after the CNN segment on children and sports

we turned to CNN immediately as the first half ended and CNN was doing a piece on kids/parents and intense sport participation.

How appropriate to show that particular piece, with all the people coming over from watching pro football, in the first place.

If people who have no clue about politics were watching the kid sport segment, they would be drawn into watching Child Pay all the way through. The only question is, could they read fast enough to get the message at the end of the ad?

[Bill McBlueState]

30. there it was again

at about 8:35