Billboard sparks debate, shows 9/11 feelings still raw

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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/12/05/210745/billboard-sparks-debate-shows.html



Billboard sparks debate, shows 9/11 feelings still raw
By James Rosen
McClatchy Washington Bureau
December 5, 2013

WASHINGTON — If there’s such a thing as an old-fashioned billboard going viral, it’s happened to a poster ad showing a U.S. soldier and a Muslim woman embracing.

After weeks of slowing traffic on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, the billboard is now up in downtown Chicago, where cars honk and passersby stop to stare.

But there will be no similar sensation in New York City.

Clear Channel, citing “community standards” at a site not far from the Ground Zero memorial to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, refused to let the photo run on its billboard at Times Square. An ad agency could not find other billboard owners willing to display the controversial image near the spot where the illuminated ball slowly drops every New Year’s Eve to a throng at Broadway and Seventh Avenue.

[B Calm]

1. What is Snore Stop?

[JHB]

3. Company that sells anti-snoring remedies...

...who obviously is carrying out an "unconventional" ad campaign.

[B Calm]

4. Their ad campaign is working!

[GeorgeGist]

2. Clear Channel?

Why give a damn?