Cheers to Cliff Schecter on his successful push to stop Fred Thompson's deal to get free time on ABC. It had violated campaign fairness laws and with a little blogosphere push, ABC got rid of Fred. Like Cliff said, all it takes is a little shouting until you get stuff like this taken care of.
From Cliff Schecter:
I started a relatively lonely campaign about 2-3 weeks ago to get Fred Thompson--all but declared presidential candidate who admitted he was benefitting from free ABC airtime--off the radio there. And off their Intertube site.
I posted on it, and it was picked up by Kos, C&L, I cross-posted at Huff Post and then did some radio on it (The Young Turks, etc.). We ended up getting some print coverage and it blew up into a mini-brouhaha.
Well lo and behold, ABC is now talking about Fred in the past tense. I am not bragging here. Obviously what they were doing was so beyond the pale, that anyone who brought it up would have been able to put pressure on them. But I guess that is the point. Stand up and make yourself heard, and who knows what happens.
There is no reason for front-runner Fred to be getting free time from a network that does the same for all of the candidates. ABC should have known better. Then again, it is ABC.
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