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November 4, 2008
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October 29, 2008
CNN declines request to air Obama’s 30 minute campaign spot
Posted by Aaron Baker under Barack Obama, Candidates, Election 2008, National Politics | Tags: Barack Obama, BET, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Univision |[2] Comments
The Obama campaign asked CNN to air its 30-minute campaign ad, scheduled for Wednesday evening, but the network turned them down.
“CNN was approached by the Obama campaign and declined their request,” the network said in a Tuesday statement. “We did not want to pre-empt our programming lineup with a 30-minute campaign commercial. We prefer to use our air to continue to cover the campaign, candidates and issues like we always do from all points of view with the best political team on television.”
The half hour infomercial will be airing on CBS, NBC, FOX television, MSNBC, Univision, BET and TV One. Maybe it’s just me, but I applaud CNN for not airing the content, as I feel that a news organization’s responsibility is to be as unbiased as possible (granted, I believe there will always be political ‘tones’ with each network).
Aaron Baker