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Rogue of the Week

Clear Channel Outdoor


Company shows signs of cowardice.

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BY WW EDITORIAL STAFF | 503-243-2122

[August 13th, 2008]

This week’s gold medal for Roguery goes to Clear Channel Outdoor.

The billboard giant first flexed its corporate muscle in June on the Iraqi Children’s Campaign, refusing to take $2,100 for a billboard (pictured) that the campaign wanted to put up in any prominent location around Portland.

“It is not like there is a picture of a blown-up Iraqi child,” says Steve Geiger, founder of the Iraqi Children’s Campaign (a project of the Oregon Wildlife Federation, the campaign is a nonprofit whose mission includes peace and justice along with the environment).

“The billboard was simply meant to create empathy for innocent wartime children,” Geiger says. “It was not meant to be a political statement.”

Fast forward to last Friday when Brad Parsons, Clear Channel regional general manager, agreed after two months to meet with the Iraqi Children’s Campaign for the first time.

Geiger wonders why Parsons bothered, because he says the first thing out of Parsons’ mouth at the meeting was, “I absolutely refuse to comment on this.”

Parsons also didn’t return WW’s phone messages.

Even if Clear Channel believes the “Every Child Matters” billboards stray into politics, it’s not as if the company doesn’t rent billboard space to political causes in Portland.

There are two Clear Channel billboards along 82nd Avenue displaying views against abortion and for the troops.

Says Geiger: “To deny an apolitical billboard campaign that only seeks empathy for all innocent children affected by war is an all-time low.”














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RECENT COMMENTS ON “Clear Channel Outdoor”

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You can't forget that Clear Channel is also the owner of the Rush Limbaugh radio program. If you aren't representing a fundamentalist evangelical cult cause, then they aren't interested in your money.

Chuck Paugh, Aug 15th, 2008 4:56pm
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Someone has to stand up to the freaks on the left who clearly preach they honor diversity but then go ballistic when you try to express an opinion different from theirs. I am no lover of Limbaugh (or...

Doug Taylor, Aug 15th, 2008 9:33pm
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Doug, you're a useless twit, and a fascist traitor to your country. Shoot yourself-- the world would be better without you and your vicious kind.

ClearChannel is a giant corporatio...

Uriah Maynard, Aug 19th, 2008 3:05pm
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KPOJ, Portland's "progressive talk station" is (amazinly) owned by Clear Channel. Has anyone tried to discuss this issue on the local morning show? I truly wonder if it could happen. Afte...

Cristy Murray, Aug 20th, 2008 1:43pm
 
 
 





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