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| Anti-War Group Takes Media Giant to Court Over Billboard |
| 2004-07-16 |
| An anti-war group sued media giant Clear Channel in New York this week for breach of contract over an anti-war billboard the group wanted to display in New York's Times Square during the Republican National Convention. The groups reached a settlement Thursday amid speculation that the lawsuit may have been a preplanned publicity stunt, something the anti-war group denies. "We just want our billboard up," said Project Billboard spokesman Alex Slater. "We don't want damages; we don't want our money back. We just want our billboard." Thursday's agreement, reached after the lawsuit was filed, earned the group two billboards instead of the one originally rented. It also generated a lot of national press coverage. Project Billboard originally contracted with Clear Channel Communications to put up a billboard on the New York Marriott Marquis in Times Square. Clear Channel -- which recently tangled with shock-jock Howard Stern over his show's sexually explicit content -- also organizes concerts, entertainment events and billboard advertising. Slater described Project Billboard as "a group of concerned citizens who highlight important debates that face our country in the run-up to this election." He claims Clear Channel violated its contract in refusing the original billboard design. |
| Posted by:Mark Espinola |
| #7 Does anyone think that if something comparable to what the anti-war group had in mind was plastered across a billboard near the Democratic convention in Boston that lefties would waste no time in trying to get it taken down? |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-07-16 11:52:29 PM |
| #6 turban's not tight enuf |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-07-16 9:18:41 PM |
| #5 Lol! Boy am I glad I'm on this side of the issue - youz guyz is be formidible! 'Sides, I dunno how to seethe. It's really starting to bug me! This is as close as I've come thus far - and he just looks like he's gonna 'splode! |
| Posted by: .com 2004-07-16 9:17:17 PM |
| #4 Doh! "anti-war"...I guess I had a subconscious aversion to that name....wonder why? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-07-16 9:16:21 PM |
| #3 obviously this "nti-war" group hasn't taken our sensitivities to account and should expect we conservatives will start seething. They should voluntarily pull their ads to be sensitive to us. Or we'll kill them...did I get the patter down right? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-07-16 9:10:12 PM |
| #2 Perfect, .com! They are (indeed) the purveyors and tools of socialism, apologists for those who wish to destroy us, enablers of the terrorists, and the enemies of freedom. |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-07-16 9:05:41 PM |
| #1 Yo, Clear Channel - you should've know better than to accept a deal with lunatics and asshats. I hope it cost you a bundle - and is an instant object lesson to everyone else out there in the media biz: These people are not just anti-war, they're on the other side. These people have zero integrity and their hatred knows no bounds. They are the purveyors and tools of socialism, apologists for those who wish to destroy us, enablers of the terrorists, and the enemies of freedom. They just don't have the balls to admit it, yet - just as the MSM hasn't the stones to report it. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-07-16 7:42:34 PM |
