AT&T CAVES TO "MMM" DEMANDS

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AT&T CAVES TO "MMM" DEMANDS -- PULLS NRA INFOMERCIAL IN ST. LOUIS


(Partially excerpted from the "MMM Apple Pie" piece)
The "Million Mom March" ("MMM") has bestowed one of its "Apple Pie Awards" upon AT&T. One of NRA’s infomercials was running on a local AT&T Cable station in the St. Louis area. The infomercial prompted a local "MMM" member to protest to AT&T about running the piece. Officials at AT&T Cable professed they bought a package of infomercials from the National Booking Company and were unaware that the NRA ad was part of that package, and that they certainly had no desire to offend "MMM" members. The company immediately pulled the infomercial from its St. Louis television stations, and said that they would not buy NRA infomercials in the future. This ludicrous and hostile anti-gun move was basically prompted by the phone call of a single "MMM" member. We urge all NRA members to contact AT&T Broadband (this is the subsidiary that operates the cable TV) en masse at: 9197 S. Peoria, Englewood, CO 80112 , Phone: (720) 875-5500, Fax: (720) 875-4984, www.broadband.att.com to make their views known on this action! AT&T’s corporate HQ needs to hear from you as well: AT&T Corporate, 32 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10013-2412 , Phone: (212) 387-5400, Fax: (212) 387-5695, http://www.att.com



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Gun control started the Revolutionary War!..."itcta alea est"
 
I just called the number 720-875-5500 and I urge you all to do the same. I mentioned the NRA ad and they sent me off to a recorded message. I am sure they are getting hundreds of calls, basically they (AT&T) are claiming that they had nothing to do with it. That a local company decided with out the knowledge of AT&T to not air a NRA ad. I like the idea of them getting so many phone calls that they make a special recording to explain the situation, Now do I believe them? Yes I think I do! I still think the MMM get too much press and it is too easy for them to hide behind the "CHILDREN". Call the number, and see what you think.

[This message has been edited by L-Frame (edited October 02, 2000).]
 
Just curious. Doesn't this violate the NRA's First Amendment right to free speech?
Oh that's right, we gun owners and the NRA don't have any rights.
Or do we? I wonder if that isn't an option. Hell everybody wants to sue everybody else for sillier reasons than that.
Is this an option we have overlooked?
Paul B.
 
I'm not now, nor have I ever been a smoker, but it appears to me that the first admendment rights of tabacoo companies have been violated for years (when was the last time that you saw one of their ads on TV?) -- it was only a matter of time before the gun industry began to experience the same thing. FUD.
 
Sent thit with my origonal post.

The information mentioned above was brought to my attention the other day. I must say how shocked and disappointed I am with AT&T for removing the NRA's infomercial. I'm here to say, I will no longer use AT&T's phone service, or buy any more of your products. I teach in a college environment and will encourage every student I come in contact with and everybody I know not to use AT&T and I will pass the information mentioned above to as many people possible.

Gun control started the Revolutionary War.

Shaun Priest
 
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