TV networks shouldn't accept advocacy ads, Kaplan says

Marty Kaplan, associate dean and director of the Norman Lear Center, appeared January 28 on KPCC 89.3's "Talk of the City" to discuss CBS's refusal to air an anti-Bush ad sponsored by MoveOn.org during the Super Bowl. "People who agree with MoveOn are better served by a system which excludes all such ads, rather than a system which sells them to the people who have the most money," Kaplan said. "I don't think we want to have network executives being in the position of doing the picking and choosing." Kaplan was also quoted January 29 in the Kansas City Star about presidential hopeful Howard Dean. "In the short time between Iowa and New Hampshire, Dean had the time to plummet, then voters had the time to register that plunge, and then Dean had the time to recover," Kaplan commented.
Listen to KPCC interview
Kansas City Star article