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Clear Channel Communications, one of the largest communications conglomerates around, has rejected displaying a politically oriented billboard in NYC around the same time as the Republican convention. The billboard in question showed an American flag in the shape of a bomb with the slogan "Democracy is best taught by example, not by war."
If this had been the government stopping the display of this ad, then I'd be all up in arms over it. That's not the case here -- it's a business decision (as politically motivated as it may or may not be). On the one hand, CCC is well within their rights as a private business to decline any business they do not want. On the other hand, it does smack a little of political expedience.
Posted by Casper at July 12, 2004 05:02 PM