Utah TV Station Refuses to Air Anti-War Ad

A Utah television station is refusing to air an anti-war ad bought by Gold Star Families for Peace, featuring Cindy Sheehan, whose son's death in Iraq prompted a vigil outside President Bush's Texas ranch. The ad began airing on other area stations Saturday, two days before Bush was scheduled to speak in Salt Lake City to the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. In the ad, Sheehan pleads with Bush for a meeting and accuses him of lying to the American people about Iraq's development of weapons of mass destruction and its connection to al-Qaida. However, a national sales representative for KTVX, a local ABC affiliate, rejected the ad in an e-mail to media buyers, writing that it was an "inappropriate commercial advertisement for Salt Lake City." For more on this story.
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