Censorship or a Higher Calling? Media Outlets and Political Ads
ByI love my favorite radio station, KLTY 94.9, because of the positive music and the positive messages. It touts itself as “Safe for the Whole Family” and it is… Then why my beef? Negative political ads are infringing on my time with God. 
On my drive to work this morning, I was confronted with all of the terrible thingsSenator Kay Bailey Hutchison has done in Washington. Was it investigative reporting? No, an ad by the campaign to re-elect our current Texas governor Rick Perry.
On a station that promotes such positivity in all aspects of the way it conducts business, does it have a policy about negative political ads? Does the parent company Salem Communications? Wouldn’t the world be a better place if media outlets could refuse such ads and force the politicians to promote their own positive agendas instead of just focusing on the negative aspects of their rivals. Is this censorship or a higher calling?
Gov Perry and Sen. Hutichison…Please focus on what YOU can do for Texas as you have in other positive ads!
1 Comments
January 29th, 2010 at 10:55 am
I appreciate the desire to peacefully drive to work and listen to christian programming, but politically that is a very desirable target audience for the Republican Party. Advertising on that channel and towards similar audiences is key for both Rick Perry and Sen. Hutchison in their bitter battle for party dominance and the governorship.
At the same time, as Texans, I think Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison are doing a great disservice by running the types of campaigns that they are. It could cost Texas a Republican Governor at all. Both candidates need to find a more agreeable way to settle this dispute, however the possibility of that is relatively low.