Item 1: CBS refuses to run ‘issue advocacy’ ads from MoveOn and PETA during the SuperBowl.
CBS canned a 30-second spot sponsored by the liberal online activist group MoveOn.org. The commercial, which won a celebrity-judged competition for the honor of being MoveOn’s Super Bowl ad, depicts children performing a variety of blue-collar jobs — washing dishes, collecting garbage, working on an assembly line. The tagline near the end of the commercial asks, “Guess who’s going to pay off President Bush’s \$1 trillion deficit?”
The network also spiked a commercial submitted by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. That ad featured scantily clad women and suggested that meat-eating might contribute to impotence.
Item 2: CBS debuts first-ever HIV/AIDS commercial during the SuperBowl.
CBS will air what is being called the first-ever HIV/AIDS commercial to be seen during Super Bowl Sunday programming.
Sources within CBS’s parent company, Viacom, tell the Gay.com/PlanetOut.com Network that the 20-second spot is expected to run in the latter half of the Super Bowl XXXVIII Pre-Game Show, when the most viewers are expected to tune in.
Somehow, these two stories just don’t add up. The CAP has more on CBS’s double standards.
(via Daily Kos)