According to the Associated Press, NBC has refused to run television ads from a right-wing group because they’re too “controversial.” The group, to be sure, appears to court controversy. But the ads themselves appear (to me, at least) to be agreeable to everyone but the few Americans who truly deserve a butt-kicking.
You decide:
OK — granted, Freedom’s Watch is a group of political conservatives. But NBC is hiding behind the notion that it won’t run “controversial” ads. Really? The next 11 months will be full of political hatchet-job spots. Good luck maintaining that standard.
Besides:
- Remember the National Hockey League ad that got feminist Martha Burk up in arms? NBC ran it.
- And the anti-smoking ad that all four major networks originally spiked because of the attendant controversy? NBC eventually ran it during the 2000 Olympics.
- A few NBC affiliates refused to run a MoveOn.org ad last year, according to the Annenberg Public Policy Center — which suggests that the network green-lighted it.
- And just a few months ago, NBC started running condom ads. (CBS and FOX took a pass.) Don’t get me wrong — me likey the condom ads. But weren’t they “controversial” too?
Note to NBC’s Standards and Practices department: One standard, please. For everyone.
UPDATE: A few of you have pointed out to me via e-mail (oversneer-AT-gmail-DOT-com) that NBC also refused to run ads for the stridently anti-Bush “Dixie Chicks” movie, and for a national Christian church denomination that stressed its inclusion of gays and lesbians. Fair enough. Personally, I think those decisions might have been motivated by a desire to not alienate other advertisers. But that’s just my opinion. You may have a point.
She just won a lawsuit against The Sun and News of the World for publishing some nude pictures of her. Which were taken on the set of the upcoming blockbuster Hippie Hippie Shake. Outdoors. So it’s an invasion of privacy, see, because… um… I don’t really know.
Aren’t all 27 people who buy a ticket for that movie going to see her naughty parts? Not to mention anybody who types “Sienna Miller” into Google Images and sees her getting naked in public like every single day of her life? I don’t get how it’s any different just because it’s in a tabloid. But then, I’m not a British judge. (Anymore. Long story.)
Doll-sized dolphin defender and third-hottest Heroes chick Hayden Panettiere isn’t afraid to take on America’s #1 sacred cow — the paparazzi:
“For God knows what reason, they compare me with Lindsay Lohan!” Panettiere, 18, tells Teen magazine for its winter issue. “It’s kind of become, ‘All right, you guys can stay there and try knocking me off my horse.’ I want to prove them wrong now…”
“I think that, now more than ever, young girls need a good role model,” she says. “My mom always says, ‘You are the books you read and the people you surround yourself with.”
Good point…
Whether she’s holding somebody else’s cigarette while standing next to a media-spawned demoness who can never quite manage to look sexy, or sniffing small dogs for freshness with [see above], that lil’ Hayden is just plain folks!
(Hat tips: Pretty Boring, Celebrity Dog Blog, this person)
Follow-up to “Eva Mendes Fakes It”:
Kudos to CelebSlam for digging into the fashion habits of PETA spokes-chica Eva “I’d rather go naked than wear fur” Mendes.
Here she is in We Own the Night — wearing fur.
And leaving a hotel — wearing fur.
And on a movie-premiere red carpet — wearing fur.
And at a benefit for the Metropolitan Museums Costume Institute — wearing fur.
And at a GQ party — wearing fur.
Quips CelebSlam:
So besides in movies; leaving hotels; at movie premieres, benefit galas, and parties; Eva Mendes would rather go naked than wear fur.
I have an uncle who used to go vegetarian for a few weeks each year, just to draw attention to himself. Nobody took him seriously either.
Amy Winehouse surprised a small London club with an impromptu performance earlier this week. This after she canceled her tour, claiming that — with her husband in jail and all — she couldn’t find it within herself to go on stage:
“I can’t give it my all onstage without my Blake,” she tells Us in a statement. “I’m so sorry, but I don’t want to do the shows half-heartedly.
“I love singing,” she adds. “My husband is everything to me, and without him, it’s just not the same.”
It’s one thing if she were using the time off to get help. But no, no, no. Just skip the tour where thousands of people actually paid for tickets, then go on a bender and forget you’re too distraught to perform.
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