Hypocrisy at the Village Voice

Russ Smith has a take on Fox News rejecting an ad for The Nation:

While Fox rejected the spot, Bravo, CNN, MSNBC and TBS/TNT accepted the dough, not objecting to this promotion: "[The Nation] peels away layers of obfuscation. Shreds lies. Slices through White House fog. And you can try it for four weeks absolutely free. It's The Nation—America's hottest, most widely read journal of opinion. Nobody owns The Nation—not Time Warner, not Murdoch. So there's no corporate slant, no White House spin, just the straight dope."
Fox, which advertised in the Nation last year, causing serious tsouris among many of the magazine's readers, told Murphy, "I guess we're more selective than others."
It's a little hard to believe that the business department of Fox nixes spots "all the time," but in any case it's their prerogative. TBS/TNT accepted the ad only after the reference to Time Warner and Rupert Murdoch was excised.
Anyway, this minor advertising controversy wouldn't have caught my attention had it not been for a somewhat similar incident back in the mid 90s before the Voice switched to free circulation. New York Press attempted to buy a full-page ad in the Voice, willing to pay its highest rate, promoting the annual "Best of Manhattan" issue. After some hemming and hawing, our publisher at the time was told that then-owner Leonard Stern's management team had rejected the ad. Which, frankly, was what I expected; nevertheless it's kind of funny to see Murphy on his high horse about the evil Murdoch empire when in fact this is the sort of business that goes on all the time.

I bet the lefties will be howling about this but I find the part about CNN and TBS having to take out the reference to Time Warner and Murdoch hilarious.