January 31, 2003
On the Media
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🗓️ 5 May 2011
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From WNYKRC in New York, this is NPR's On the Media. |
| 0:21.9 | I'm Bob Garfield. |
| 0:23.3 | And I'm Brooke Gladstone. |
| 0:29.9 | Here's an ad that was scheduled to run during CNN's coverage of the State of the Union address, but you didn't see it. |
| 0:32.4 | War against Iraq is the most irrational thing that... It's a violation of international law. |
| 0:35.1 | Why? |
| 0:36.4 | Where's the point? |
| 0:37.4 | To risk my life. |
| 0:38.2 | Because it will destabilize the whole is not in the best interest of the United States. |
| 0:42.3 | Self-appointed group of mercenaries. |
| 0:44.6 | It is pursuing a personal agenda. |
| 0:46.8 | I think that we've got enough problems here to focus on the political war. |
| 0:50.3 | We can use those billions of dollars here. |
| 0:51.7 | Violence only brings a battle. |
| 0:53.1 | No war. |
| 0:54.0 | Yes. Peace. No war, yes, peace. |
| 0:55.9 | No war, yes, peace. |
| 0:58.5 | You didn't see it because Comcast, the biggest cable company in the nation, |
| 1:02.3 | decided at the last minute not to air it. |
| 1:05.3 | This outrage, the anti-war group that created and paid for the ad, |
| 1:09.2 | and alarmed many others who are concerned about the |
| 1:11.7 | impact of media consolidation on the marketplace of ideas. Joining us once again is Alicia Mundy, |
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