Coalition for Darfur: Darfur: Be A Witness Ad Rejected

The Coalition for Darfur blog quotes an email from Be a Witness:

A few weeks ago we asked you to help support our campaign and put our ad on television. The ads were to begin airing tomorrow on the Washington, DC affiliates of all six networks – ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FoxNews, and MSNBC – that are the focus of our campaign.

Now, we have just learned that two of the stations, NBC-4 and CBS-9, rejected our TV ad. These networks are devoting endless hours to cover Michael Jackson, Tom Cruise, and the 'Runaway Bride,' but they won’t allow us to pay for 30 seconds to challenge them to do a better job covering the Darfur genocide.

You can help today by sending a message to NBC-4 and CBS-9 demanding that they air the TV ad:

http://www.BeAWitness.org/action

During the month of June, NBC News aired 80 times as many segments devoted to Michael Jackson, Tom Cruise, and the Runaway Bride as it did to the Darfur genocide. CBS News was even worse. It did not run a single story on the Darfur genocide.

We can’t let these networks get away with it. We need your help to demand that NBC and CBS air the ad.