Mon 2 Feb 2004
Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing, writes:
MoveOn.org organized the BushIn30Seconds campaign to raise the money to air a 30-second spot during the SuperBowl detailing the problems with the Bush administration. The spots were produced by MoveOn fans, released under a Creative Commons license, and juried by a distinguished panel.
Only one snag: CBS wouldn’t run the winning ad. They claimed that it would be too topical for them (though an ad equating drugs with terrorism and a Janet Jackson’s nipple were both peachy keen). So much for open political discourse in America.
Here’s the SuperBowl ad you didn’t see. It’s licensed under a Creative Commons license, so you can make copies, you can share it with your friends, you can put it on your hard-drive and show it to your kids when they ask you what happened to America.