advertiser pulls anti-Schmidt billboard at last minute
In response to feedback from the grass/netroots, we made some phone calls about placing billboards in locations with greater traffic (ie. Cincinnati). Then this morning, we got a call from Lamar Advertising’s Cincinnati district informing us, “I don’t like negative ads.” It wasn’t any more than twenty minutes later that the phone rang again, this time it was Lamar’s district office responsible for the ad in Portsmouth, Ohio. The message? They were going to deny placement of the billboard because the content was negative. Kos item.
Note Lamar was owned by Clear Channel until after the DoJ demanded divestiture in 2000. There are still plenty of Clear Channel billboards in the Chicago area keeping the discourse nice and safe.