KSTP news CENSORSHIP

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carbiner

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Up here Minnesota where people were once free, the KSTP television news station rejected and refused to run a great pro IRAQ war veterans ad.

It seems they don't agree with that pesky 1st amendment free speech right after all!
Unless it fits their agenda.

This is a hard core liberal news program, which in turn works hard to program it's veiwers.

The good news is that we have alot of folks voicing their concern, and some are just ticked!
 
Sinclair Broadcasting has done the same for liberal groups. They refuse to show anything but right wing ads. So it works both ways.
 
Open your eyes man............

Were talking about our veterans.

How is that right wing?

unbelievable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
I don't think you understand what free speech is.

The broadcaster has the right to say whatever it wants. You don't have the right to make them broadcast anything YOU want.

A television station is a business and private entity, not a public utility. It doesn't have to do anything it doesn't want to, and I am glad.


If no one will play their ad, they can start their own TV station and exercise their own freedoms without having to get pissy because someone else didn't want to give away theirs.



How is a "pro Iraq war" ad not right wing?
 
Eithier way, it proves the point of liberal media bias. There's alot of neat little ways to repackage it, but fact remains fact.
 
I asked how is the ad right wing?

I see it as very patriotic, and suportive of the war.

So far KSTP has not given an explination that makes any sense. KSTP constantly pushes negative anti war propaganda day after day. Maybe they could just be honest for a change about were thay stand.
 
So supporting the war isn't right wing, but not supporting an ad for it is left wing?


I'm good at riddles, but you lost me on that one.
 
Thank you, I found a new talent.

I'll keep it simple. I side with the vets and their families that KSTP has done a diservice to them by witholding the ad.

I saw the ad, in it they state the media does not always tell the whole story, or only one side.

The funny thing is, KSTP says "You'll get the whole story with us"

I guess the media does not like the truth, the ad had too much truth about the war.
Yes the left is anti war and so is KSTP.
 
carbiner said:
Up here Minnesota where people were once free, the KSTP television news station rejected and refused to run a great pro IRAQ war veterans ad.
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So if a private company would have run the ad, you'd be more free? :confused:

carbiner said:
It seems they don't agree with that pesky 1st amendment free speech right after all! Unless it fits their agenda.
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Please read the First Amendment again. It applies to the government, not private corporations.

You'll be more effective with getting your point across if you drop the appeals to emotion and simply address the facts.

You support the troops and the war.
You support veterans and their families.
You have an ad that supports veterans of the war.
KSTP refuses to air the ad.
KSTP does not support veterans or their families.
KSTP does not support the war.

Make a list of KSTP's major advertisers and contact them to tell them what has happened and why you will actively promote a boycott of their businesses.
 
Your right bluesman, It just burns me sometimes when I see such large, powerful, free and prosperous media outlets turn their backs on the troops like that.
 
I am from the Twin Cities and never watch KSTP anyway. They S**k and report only sensationalized trash. Killer bees, zombies, and vampire canaries are their usual stories.:barf:
 
Just curious, but why conclude that KTSP doesn't support the troops?

The ad is BOTH pro-war AND pro-troops. Their reason for turning it down need only be one or the other, not necessarily both.
 
A television station is a business and private entity, not a public utility. It doesn't have to do anything it doesn't want to, and I am glad.
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Except that television is regulated, even when it's cable TV. That provides a nexus with the government, so it is censorship in a way, even if the government is not the one doing the censoring.
 
The FCC IS censorship. If the government connection is already a loss of some free speech, you think that should make MORE okay?
 
Isn't there public access television for airing that which no other outlet will air?

Showtime insists on running Michael Moore's movies yet refusing to air The Passion or other programming considered right wing. I took Showtime off my satellite because of this. I mailed them asking if they are a political organization or an entertainment provider.

They can program what they want. I can turn them off if I want.
 
I remember a movement some time ago aimed at getting the attention of advertisers . People would buy something from their competition and mail a copy of the reciept . They mentioned why they did this and that perhaps the advertiser might want to reconsider their advertising strategy . Just to repeat what an "advertising dude" told me once . "A hand written letter means that 100 people feel this way". Sooooo if they get 50 letters it represents 5,000 sentiments on the subject . Also moves like this will garner the attention of medias in many areas .Most often companies will adopt a moderate position on things like this . Moderate in this case as with politics means please as many folks as you can regardless of your personal feelings .
 
"A television station is a business and private entity, not a public utility."

Except that a broadcast television station is unique in that it uses part of the electromagnetic spectrum (the "airwaves") as its medium, and the airwaves are public property. Though they are given broad discretion, they in general do *not* have the right to use public property to broadcast anything they want.

If they wanted to print a newspaper, or use some other wholly-owned private medium, they could pontificate on any agenda they want, with very few limits.

Tim
 
The airways are like the highways. You can use them to conduct your legal business.

The FCC puts limitations on the content on the airways, but doesn't tell any private broadcaster what KIND of broadcast they have to make. Again the comparison to the roads: Within preset limits, use the roads to transport whatever you like, as long as it is neither dangerous to other drivers or damaging to the roads.

KTSP is a business, and sells a product. They don't have to do anything they don't want to.
 
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