why? ... Why not?

so much for free speech

i agree, wendy.
i think tv stations should only pull ads that present facts inaccurately or claims that are not backed up.

not opinions.
i'm not a dixie chick fan nor a dixie chick foe. i think celebrity opinion is overrated anyway.

if they have released something political, why don't they make the talk show circuit.

I have a feeling it will only bring the movie even more publicity. Makes me curious, and I don't even like the Dixie Chicks.

I'm a fan of the Dixie Chick's music. Yet I don't always agree with how they present themselves or what they say. I do however fully support their right to say it, even if I don't agree. I think the networks should give them the outlet to advertise but like you mentioned, use a disclaimer that the views may not reflect the views of the network.

I don't like them. They dissed Toby! (LOL)

is down right foolish...........Honestly, in my 50 years, I can't remember an administration that had the control of the media that this one has had in YEARS.........even Nixon was not afraid of the media.....

I am sorry but this is called "Corporate America having a bit more clout then they should have over the American public......thanks to the Republican way of life....As I understand it, Corporate America is called Capitalist .... and if that's the way America wants to continue to grow and live, then I guess that's how America will vote in the upcoming elections....God help us! (I won't have to worry as much as my childrens children will)

NBC decided to do that because it feared two things: Angry advertisers and angry viewers. Angry viewers don't watch. That means the advertisers get angry because the ratings are lower than they were. Ad rates reflect the ratings and advertisers don't like being "cheated." It's free enterprise in action. It's also pretty darned stupid.

Unfortunately, there are too many bush supporters out there and networks fear that if they run it viewers will scamper away. Yeah, I just said scamper....Don't count on fox as they're not exactly "fair and balanced". Nice disclaimer : I don't believe a word of it. Oh, just read above comments, we're all saying the same thing. Well, what ever happened to freedom of the press? The media needs to get some balls!

Now this truly is the quandry of quandries, now isn't it..?

One side would have people believe that because NBC won't air Ditzi Chix propaganda; thus "NBC is halting the Ditzi Chix free speech" [sorry- but movie premiers are all about the glitz-n-good of a film- when's the last time you saw all the bad parts in a film teaser? Anything with Billy Bob Thorton is not allowed...]

The other side would have us believe that The Ditzi Chix are some bastions of free speech, when in fact they spew their own brand of secular progressive clap trap and are totally stunned that people find it reprehensable or downright insulting.

"Freedom of Speech" is just that- the right to voice an opinion, concern, need or desire in an open forum without fear of reprisal or governmental backlash. It does not guarantee you an audience- nor does it infer the necessity to listen to damn fool crap.

Regardless which side you think said crap is coming from.

Swift Boat Veterans?
How about Dan Rather and CBS barely skipping a liable suit?

Michael Moore's Farenheight 9/11?
How about the Uni-bomber Manifesto?

If Fox is "unfair and imbalanced" then "The Alphabet 3" are by no stretch of the imagination more moderate.

"Corporate America has too much clout over the little guy?"

People have been saying that for far more than 50 years- try the British Monarchy or Ceasarian Rome for starters... All claptrap.

People seem to think that there's some liberal or Republican media conspiracy...

Bull Pucky, I say!

The media sets its own agenda.

One need only go back to the 1800s with Randolph Hearst and his [Rosebud!] newspaper conspiracy that started the Spanish American War.

Clinton may as well have been pariah meat as all teh press fed on his still orgasmic corpse in the Moneca Scandal...

Nixon got buried under the Whitewater scandal- his fear of the press is more than legendary.

Free speech means just that. The government can't force you to say or not say anything.

Flap your gums or tap your keyboard all you want.

At the same token, the double edge to the speech sword is that the government or the people can't force you to listen either.

Just as we can say what we want, nobody has to listen, read or see it.

Sounds fair to me.