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From: "Bill Doskoch" <bill.doskoch at sympatico.ca> To: <caj-list at eagle.ca> Subject: Adbusters suing networks for not airing spots Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:58:51 -0400
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Bill Doskoch Toronto, ON Bell Globemedia employee
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Adbusters suing networks for not airing spots
By JOE FRIESEN
From Wednesday's Globe and Mail
Adbusters, the Vancouver-based alternative media organization, is suing Canada's major television networks for refusing to broadcast advertisements that criticize consumerism.
It has hired prominent civil-rights lawyer Clayton Ruby to act as counsel in this case, which it describes as the opening salvo in a war for greater media democracy.
"For the last 10 years I've been trying to buy air time and by and large I've been unable to do that," said Kalle Lasn, editor-in-chief of Adbusters magazine.
"I think it's a violation of my right to freedom of speech."
The lawsuit, which was filed in Ontario Superior Court, names the CBC, CanWest Global, Bell Globemedia and CHUM Ltd. as respondents.
FULL STORY: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040915.wxadbusters1 5/BNStory/Front/
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