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Fox News Rejects National Ad for Oscar-Nominated Anti-Nazi Documentary (Exclusive)
3:05 PM PST 2/13/2019 by Jeremy Barr
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Courtesy of Marshall Curry Productions
American Nazi sympathizers rally in Marshall Curry's short film 'A Night at the Garden'
The 30-second ad is called "It Can Happen Here," and was to be targeted at Sean Hannity's viewers.
Fox News has rejected a national advertising buy for a 30-second spot that warns viewers about the potential dangers of American fascism after an ad sales representative said network leadership deemed it inappropriate, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

The spot was to double as a promotion of this year's Oscar-nominated documentary short A Night at the Garden, which recounts a 1939 Nazi rally in New York City, and a warning — "It Can Happen Here" — to Sean Hannity's largely conservative viewers about the potential dangers of President Donald Trump's brand of populism.

An ad was bought to air locally during Monday night's edition of Hannity's primetime show through a regional advertising buy on Charter Communications’ Spectrum service in Los Angeles, but was precluded by breaking news — coverage of President Trump's rally in Texas.

The film's distributor, Field of Vision, then decided to purchase a national spot on Hannity's show, but was rebuffed by the network, which controls national advertising.

A Fox News national ad sales representative told the distributor's media-buying agency on Wednesday that CEO Suzanne Scott ("our CEO") said the ad was "not appropriate for our air," according to email correspondence viewed by THR.

Cable networks like Fox News do not oversee locally bought ads but can reject national advertising spots. In August 2017, CNN declined to run a paid advertisement from the Trump re-election campaign because it portrayed some of the network's news personalities as "enemies" of the president, a decision the campaign decried as censorship.

"The film shines a light on a time when thousands of Americans fell under the spell of a demagogue who attacked the press and scapegoated minorities using the symbols of American patriotism," Night at the Garden director Marshall Curry said in a statement to THR.

He added, "It’s amazing to me that the CEO of Fox News would personally inject herself into a small ad buy just to make sure that Hannity viewers weren’t exposed to this chapter of American history.”

To fulfill Monday's aborted local ad buy, the documentary's ad will run during Thursday night's episode of Hannity in Los Angeles, through Charter. The film's backers also plan to advertise on other national cable news networks.

Night at the Garden marks Curry's third Oscar nomination, following nods for his 2005 documentary on now-Sen. Cory Booker (Street Fight) and the 2011 film If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front.

Field of Vision, the documentary unit of First Look Media, was created by Citizenfour filmmaker Laura Poitras, AJ Schnack and Charlotte Cook.

A Fox News spokesperson has not yet responded to a request for comment.

I checked up on the film,, It's basically about a Nazi Party Rally that filled Madison Square Garden in 1939.

It's basically something that happened before we joined WWII

Looks like the only thing added to the fact base is the Tag Line: It could happen here!

I'm not sure why they wouldn't want to run an ad for it.

cause running the ad would offend at least 30% of their viewers.

30% of their viewers are Nazi sympathizers?


where is this number coming from?

From the similar place where trump said Mexico was paying for the wall.

My ass.

That being said, the crap seen on Fox News is eerily similar to the content posted on sites like stormfront, the daily caller, and brietbart.

There’s a reason why the alt right is attracted to Fox News. And here’s a reason content on Fox News seems to cater to that sort of demographic.

I just thought 30% was kinda a ridiculous amount....

80% would probably be a better estimate....

Whats funny is that a lot of those people would never identify themselves as a Nazi sympathizer......but once you broke it down as far as where their core values align.....that's probably when they would get angry and start calling you a dumb liberal....

80% is a bit high.

i think the issue is due to the fact that most things today are about perception. there's people here on this board who have said some off the wall stuff when it comes to that aspect of racial identity. however, i think the majority perceive it to be a 1st amendment issue.

like, they will somehow equate nazi's with antifa and BLM. they think because antifa and BLM appear to be more socially tolerable, and nazi's aren't, that somehow its a suppression of rights.

they're too oblivious to connect the obvious history behind nazi's and white supremacist. now, there are some who damn well know and just don't care, but overall i think the average fox news viewer is just ignorant.

i mean, these are the people who believed in pizza gate, obama being a foreign born muslim, false flag operations, and white genocide. they aren't sympathizers really, but they are definitely clueless.

Do you guys actually believe what you type?

I'm beginning to wonder if liberalism is a mental disorder.

For some people I'm 100% postitive it is.

Liberalism is really all there is left.....I don't believe todays conservatives really fit the label...

In todays politics, liberalism simply exists across the spectrum in shades of grey....

Any idea of strict constructionalism, small gov't, and frugal spending is pretty much dead....

All politicians blatantly defy the constitution, they all favor huge gov't programs, and they all spend ludicrous amounts of money on said programs..

True conservatism has been dead for years...

Bringing facts to this board will only result in your being ridiculed and called a socialist. Socialist, like it's a scarlet letter! I'll take that everyday all day from Trump's Red Right 88 mushroom brigade.

Nobody likes socialists, this is true. There is no place in our society for the alt left, just like there is no place for the alt right.

this is coming from the lady who claimed hillary clinton was a lesbian.

She is a lesbian.

Well, lets keep it real here. I'd guess most cons want those things. But none of that really fit any politicians agenda.

This is the funny thing that Cons don't understand. Liberalism is literally a political philosophy from the 1700's that simply states that people are born equal. So when cons are making fun of liberalism calling them stupid, I just nod in agreement that they are indeed stupid.

I wouldn't say that they necessarily want those things.....as much as they want a version of those things....like, they want frugal spending until it comes to defense.....they want limited gov't but still support massive domestic spying programs, they want to adhere to the constitution but still advocate extra-judicial killings of American citizens abroad....

They want those core principles only as much as they can accuse the "left," of being in violation of those said principles.....

A true conservative would literally vote no to nearly anything that wasn't inherently justified by constitutional amendments....they would want the annual budget....all facets of the budget, even defense, to decrease rapidly...…

Ron Paul was the closest thing to a conservative politicians that we've had in many many years....

Even those who may campaign on the idea of being a true conservative, once elected, they are forced to compromise that conservatism in order to play ball with the rest of the dingbats we have in our gov't ranks....

And yet, we find ourselves in a time when these labels; liberal and conservative, are constantly being thrown around as negative labels.....and the reality is that neither label really defines anyone.....they are all liberals fighting about how far left or right they are perceived to lean.....

and ppl jump right on board with this nonsense....and it consistently sabotages any chance at a functional government representing the interest of the people....

Its like reality television, manufactured drama, vacuous content, questionable reliability.....

I hate it....

Hey Hey,, if you were married to bill, wouldn't you switch teams