ABC apologizes for airing improper ad
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The US ABC television network on Tuesday apologized for airing an advertisement containing improper scenes to promote its popular program &quot;Desperate Housewives&quot; before the telecast of &quot;Monday Night Football.
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Under the heading &quot;strange bedfellows,&quot; a staunch critic of the networks yesterday came to the defense of ABC, whose airing of last night&#39;s &quot;Saving Private Ryan&quot; was boycotted by a handful of affiliates.
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Recent network apologies suggest a climate of cowardice inside the major media companies.
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The CBS television network apologized to viewers on Thursday for interrupting the last five minutes of a hit detective drama with a special report on the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
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Owens issued a form of apology Thursday for his role in the pre-game vignette ABC-TV broadcast prior to the nationally televised Eagles-Cowboys game on Monday night.
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LONDON, Dec. 3 -- The British Broadcasting Corp. apologized Friday for falling victim to a hoax in which a fake corporate spokesman claimed to take responsibility for a deadly cyanide gas leak at a Union Carbide Corp.
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Its new ad campaign may not be focused on the right people.
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Jerry Lewis dropped an anti-gay slur â the same one that got Isaiah Washington of "Grey's Anatomy" in trouble â during the 18th hour of his annual Labor Day telethon.  He apologized Tuesday for a "bad choice of words."  The 81-year...
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The new iPhone ad depicting a pilot, Bryce is making some people cry foul.
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After further review, the ABC promotion for last week's Eagles-Cowboys &quot;Monday Night Football&quot; was over the top.
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It might seem unusual for a black candidate to model a campaign message on one of the most controversial, racially charged ads in the history of television campaign advertising Ã¢ÂÂ a spot that spurred outrage among the mostly liberal community of African-American activists.
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Turner Broadcasting apologized on Wednesday for a marketing campaign that sparked Boston's biggest security scare since the September 11, 2001, attacks -- closing bridges, shutting major roads and putting hundreds of police on alert.
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Details of a new television ad from President Bush beginning Monday:
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By LYNN ELBER, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  Toss a water-cooler barb at a TV show, and the remark disappears as fast as a weekly paycheck. Post it on the Internet, and it might end up influencing what other viewers see.
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A few days ago Kerry sent around this ad:  "Yesterday, the Bush-Cheney campaign, losing any last sense of decency, placed a disgusting ad called "The Faces of John Kerry's Democratic Party" as the main feature on its website. Bizarrely, and without explanation, the ad places Adolf Hitler among those faces."  "The Bush-Cheney campaign must pull this ad off of its website. The use of Adolf Hitler by any campaign, politician or party is simply wrong."  Which of course is a mistake.  I went and downloaded the video (which is just stupid btw.  Not a masterpiece by any means.) and there are shots of Hitler in there, but only from the MoveOn contest from a few months back.  Here's the problem.  The ...
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Canada's biggest phone company has  apologized after a punk-rock reference to the Holocaust  appeared on billboard advertisements for its cell phones.
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Instead of its five-second delay, ABC Sports should have hit the delete button on its opening for the Philadelphia Eagles-Dallas Cowboys game on Monday Night Football.