Comments on: Muzzle Watch http://blog.z-word.com/2008/05/muzzle-watch/ Commentary about Zionism, anti-Zionism, antisemitism and the conflict in the Middle East Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:49:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5-RC1.1 By: Ben http://blog.z-word.com/2008/05/muzzle-watch/#comment-345 Ben Wed, 28 May 2008 23:26:08 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=109#comment-345 Indeed they did Grif - but they did so today, one day AFTER we posted it, so it doesn't take a huge amount of imagination to see the connection. Still, I'm not complaining; their overall message is that the ad should have run. The wider point is that we provided a cast-iron example of how AJC was censored. I have yet to see Mearsheimer, Walt and Judt do the same. Indeed they did Grif - but they did so today, one day AFTER we posted it, so it doesn’t take a huge amount of imagination to see the connection. Still, I’m not complaining; their overall message is that the ad should have run.

The wider point is that we provided a cast-iron example of how AJC was censored. I have yet to see Mearsheimer, Walt and Judt do the same.

]]> By: Grif http://blog.z-word.com/2008/05/muzzle-watch/#comment-343 Grif Wed, 28 May 2008 22:54:21 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=109#comment-343 How odd, Z supplies a link to MuzzleWatch, claims they won't report the "muzzling" of the AJC ad, yet the very link they supply leads to MuzzleWatch's report on the incident. "The ad should have been accepted," says MuzzleWatch in part, and a link to the ad is supplied as well. Despite the "CENSORED" stamped across the pic of the AJC broadcaster, no censorship was involved. AJC remains perfectly free to run their ad on whatever venue cares to accept it. That one radio station declined is not evidence of censorship. No one is obligated to run any and all ads that wish to run on one's station. How odd, Z supplies a link to MuzzleWatch, claims they won’t report the “muzzling” of the AJC ad, yet the very link they supply leads to MuzzleWatch’s report on the incident. “The ad should have been accepted,” says MuzzleWatch in part, and a link to the ad is supplied as well.

Despite the “CENSORED” stamped across the pic of the AJC broadcaster, no censorship was involved. AJC remains perfectly free to run their ad on whatever venue cares to accept it. That one radio station declined is not evidence of censorship. No one is obligated to run any and all ads that wish to run on one’s station.

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