Metro New York has rejected two ads from the political group World Can't Wait, saying they are "too inflammatory" to publish on the back page, according to the group's website. Free-daily.com is attempting to contact Metro to get its side of the story.WCW, founded in 2005 by Revolutionary Communist Party founder Charles Clark Kissinger (according to discoverthenetworks.org), claims Metro refused to run an ad headlined “Who is the Real Nuclear Threat?” (pictured) in its September 21 issue because it was “too inflammatory” for the back page. A second ad headlined “One Million Dead in Iraq” was first rejected for placement on the September 25 back page explicitly because of its content, according to WCW.
Then, according to WCW, Metro offered placement on the back page at a price almost four times higher than what was originally agreed upon.
The WCW statement did not give dollar figures.
The dispute comes a week after The New York Times said it erred in giving another anti-war group, MoveOn.org, a $77,508 price break on a full-page ad attacking Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq. The House and Senate have passed resolutoins condemning MoveOn.org for the ad, which referred to Petraeus as "General Betray Us."
WCW director Debra Sweet wrote that the decision by Metro "is undoubtedly related to the 'watch what you say' atmosphere created by the White House," which condemned the MoveOn ad.
