(YBH) – NBC and CBS refuse to show an ad by a group called The Republican Trust PAC. The ad calls for people to band together and push for a repeal of a decision to put a so called mega-mosque near Ground Zero.
The ad doesn’t call for the banning of all mosque construction in the United States, just not near Ground Zero.
Radical Muslims destroyed the World Trace Center on September 11, 2001, many if not most Americans, feel that a symbol of Islam is inappropriate so close to Ground Zero.
NBC and CBS refuse to show the ad. CBS issued no comment as to why they will not show the ad. NBC said that “an ad questioning the wisdom of building a mosque at ground zero would meet our issues of public controversy advertising criteria. However, this ad, which ambiguously defines ‘they’ as referenced in the spot, makes it unclear as to whether the reference is to terrorists or to the Islamic religious organization that is sponsoring the building of the mosque. Consequently the ad is not acceptable under our guidelines for broadcast.”
Western media outlets have increasingly been wary of offending Muslims in the years since 9/11 out of fear of reprisals from Muslims. It is not clear if that is at the heart of the NBC and CBS refusals.
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