RT's 2014 “Second Opinion” ad campaign in the streets of London
The censored posters, part of RT's international "Second Opinion" ad campaign, were supposed to feature ex-US President George W. Bush and the former UK prime minister Tony Blair, but will instead show an empty space with a word "redacted" over it.
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London outdoor advertising companies have refused to allow the original images to appear on the city's telephone booths and underground stations, citing the Communications Act 2003, which prohibits political advertising.
"RT's slogan is 'Question More' and our advertising campaign has been calling exactly for that - to ask yourself a question of how would events develop, if the world media reported on different points of view, "said RT's editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan, reacting to the refusal to place the company's advertising posters in London. "It's sad that some people do not want these issues to be raised at all."
Comment: Of course the BBC in London does its own political advertising by way of omitting crucial knowledge of world events on a day-to-day basis; thereby supporting those in power by default. But don't expect that monstrosity of a news outlet purporting to be real journalism to be edited objectively any time soon. The fact is, though the RT ads are, in a sense, political, the PTB just can't afford to allow the masses to be reminded of how badly they were hoodwinked in the run-up to the west's destruction in Iraq. It might get ever greater numbers of people to question the repeated lies they are being told about current world events.