Mass. Transit bans ad on Scott Brown’s vote to gut Clean Air Act

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BY JOSEPH ROMM
16 JUN 2011 6:00 AM

This is the ad the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) censored as "too controversial":



"Too controversial? Too controversial is voting to gut the Clean Air Act, for 40 years the bulwark of our environmental policy," said Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org. "Maybe the 'T' thinks spreading that news will scare people too much -- it's sweet of them to be so protective of their riders, but Brown's vote is the real horror."

Those of us who have lived in Boston remember the subway system, the "T," fondly. Yet why should they censor a factually accurate ad?

As Blue Mass Group notes, the MBTA put on their buses the "end-of-the-world" ad, which, to put it kindly, had little basis in fact.



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http://www.grist.org/politics/2011-06-16-mass-transit-bans-ad-on-scott-browns-vote-to-gut-clean-air-act

Et Tu, Mass?

[w4rma]

1. Apparantly only ineffective campaigns against Republicans are allowed now. (nt)

[Fumesucker]

2. Ah, but the Rapture is not controversial in the USA.

Claiming that some people are just going to float up into the sky is perfectly ordinary and accepted here.

Documented facts about corporations and politicians? Not so much.

[Pacifist Patriot]

3. Facts are entirely too controversial.