Washington Post October 17, 2005 Page C01
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The ad submitted to the Detroit News was not exactly subtle.
Toyota and Hyundai operate "in countries that sponsor terrorism," it
said, while General Motors does not.
Jim Doyle of the Level Field Institute, funded by retirees and
suppliers of the Big Three automakers, says the News questioned the
assertion, which he explained was based on State Department findings
about Sudan and Iran. Then a News advertising executive told him the
ad was being rejected because her bosses had decided it was
"inflammatory to our advertisers." Says Doyle: "I didn't expect to get
censored in Detroit."
The same ad, by the way, has run in Roll Call and been accepted by The
Washington Post for this week.
So was the News protecting its automobile advertisers? Henry Ford, the
paper's vice president for marketing, says he has "no comment other
than it was a simple business decision."
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