Pro-life groups are up in arms today over the refusal of WBZ Radio to air one of their ads, a spot that has already run without incident on many other stations in the region.
The censorship incident reinforces WBZ’s longstanding reputation as a partisan left-wing news outlet.
Boston CBS Affiliate Won’t Run Pro-Life Group’s Ads on Abortion, Health Care
by Steven Ertelt
Boston, MA (LifeNews.com) — The Boston, Massachusetts CBS affiliate, radio station WBZ, has refused to sell time to a state pro-life group seeking to run ads asking that abortion funding be kept out of the health care bills in Congress. When asked to put in writing their reasons for declining the ads, the station declined.
Anne Fox, the president of Massachusetts Citizens for Life, the pro-life organization seeking air time to run the ads, told LifeNews.com they have aired without problem on other radio stations.
“These ads and similar ads have already aired on WRKO in Boston, WTAG in Worcester, and WHYN in Springfield,” she said. “They address abortion, rationing, and denial of care based on age or disability.”
Fox said the WBZ told her the ads were inaccurate but would still not say how so or why they would be denied even after she offer proof about the group’s claims.
“At first WBZ told me that we had to substantiate our ‘claims’. Then, even as I offered to do so, they decided they would not take the ads,” she said.
“This is a news station which should be dedicated to presenting all sides of an issue – especially one of such importance to their listening audience,” Fox continued. “The media, in general, is unquestioningly in favor of these bills. As a premier news station WBZ should be happy to air views that may not be exactly the same as theirs.”
Fox said the ad is something most listeners won’t hear when they watch or listen to the news reporting about the health care bill.
“When they hear the ad, I am sure people will agree that is a valuable addition to the health care debate,” she said.
ACTION: To complain, contact Chris Hill at chris.hill@CBSradio.com, write WBZ NewsRadio 1030, 1170 Soldiers Field Rd., Boston MA, 02134, or call (617) 787-7171
Liberal bias in the media?
Nah….it’s just your imagination.
umm, link to the ad so that we can decide for ourselves?
WBZ told them their ads were “inaccurate”, but they don’t hesitate to run ads for all manner of snake-oil.
Though their talk host Dan Rea is no lib
Meanwhile Herald says WRKO’s Bill Cooksey got calls, not on air, threatening to “gut him like a pig”
Brian,
You so full of BS. BZ ran spots for the Mass Institute Against Families during the recent debate on Transgender rights that they called the bathroom bill. They also ran ads against Marriage Equality and have run ads in the past for the anti choice groups including Mass Citizens for Life. Given the pressure they are under to get every buck they can there must have been something pretty inaccurate in this spot for them not to run it.
But we won’t know from reading this blog because you feel comfortable reporting on something without knowing all the facts.
Off-topic but:
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Martha Coakley: MA Atty Gen Martha Coakley
Capt Kirk: What do you make of her, Bones?
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Capt Kirk: Readings, Mr Spock?
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Lt Uhura: Captain Kirk, Atty Gen Coakley is rhetoricizing uncontrollably now, talking about working families, a woman’s right to choose, and the fact that she supports a tax on medical devices, including tampons, under what she calls “Health Care Reform!”
Capt Kirk: Set phasers on “Heavy shut-her-up!” Fire phasers at Coakley now!
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Capt Kirk: Chekov!
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Capt Kirk: Mr Spock, do we still have Norman Bates’ Mother’s mummified head in storage?
Mr Spock: Indeed we do, Captain, why?
Capt Kirk: I was thinking. Even that mummified head’s eye sockets and nose bridge are more tolerable to view than Coakley’s empty eyes and nose job. Bones, do think you could?…
Dr McCoy: I’d be more than happy to perform THAT transplant, Captain!
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Anyone catch Michelle McFake Hero the other night? She proclaimed that she would have signed up for the army the day after 9/11 but she is deaf in one ear so the Army wouldn’t take her.
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Forget waterboarding…… listening to Michele McVoicenogood for 24 hours and we may capture Bin Laden.
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Pizza: don’t knock the cellar. It may be preferable to the boredom that’s overtaken this room.
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