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Old 02-01-2004, 11:00 PM  
ThunderBalls
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The reason CBS refused to air moveon.org commercial

http://www.thenation.com/thebeat/index.mhtml?pid=1217


"The CBS Eye has been closed to the truth and to fairness,"said U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois "CBS has a great, great legacy. It is a storied name when it comes to public information in America. This chapter is sad and disgraceful," argues Durbin, who took to the floor of the Senate to express his concern that CBS was censoring the ad as a favor to the White House that has aggressively supported removing restrictions on the number of local television stations that can be owned by the network's parent company, Viacom.

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