Thursday 20 May 2010

Channel 4 Under Pressure To Terminate Ad

The Society for the Protection of Unaired Commercials has hit out at anti-abortion groups for putting pressure on Channel 4 to terminate an advert for Marie Stopes Clinics before it is aired.

“Television stations have the legal right to choose abortion ads,” said a white, middle-class spokesman for the channel. “It is grossly unfair for pressure groups - many of whom have no real experience of Channel 4 - to try to inflict their narrow-minded beliefs on an innocent, vulnerable broadcaster. What gives anyone the right to kill it off? That prerogative is reserved for God in heaven alone - or David Abraham in the chief exec’s office, as his loyal followers know him.”

“Who knows?” he added. “This ad could one day grow up into a full-blown cross-media campaign.”

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