9/11 Belongs to All of Us

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Chris Bowers has had a beef with the marketers/distributors of “Flight 93.”

I am the manager of the Liberal Blog Advertising Network, which has 86 member blogs that combine for 17.78 million page views per week. It is the second largest advertising network at Blogads. From what I can tell, not a single blog in that network features the Untied 93 advertisement that apparently was purchased on all 103 members of the Conservative Blog Advertising Network. That network was 4.37 million page views per week, just under 25% of our traffic.

Why did the marketers of United Flight 93 decide to only advertise on conservative political blogs? The Liberal Blog Advertising Network is four times as large, and is even a 20-30% better deal per page view (or CPM, to use the relevant industry term). Do they think that attack is only relevant to red America? Do they think that only Republicans were attacked on 9/11? Do they think that only conservatives remember that day? Do they think that the only people who took action on United Flight 93 had voted for George Bush one year earlier?

Chris updates and says the ads will now run on liberal blogs, too.

4 thoughts on “9/11 Belongs to All of Us”

  1. Why did the marketers of United Flight 93 decide to only advertise on conservative political blogs?

    I KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION!

    Actually I’m saving my money for the movie about Pat Tillman’s heroic firefight against the Taliban that earned him the silver star. I like my history straight up.

  3. Nope. I think I won’t be going to this movie after all.

    “Other scenes appear to be wholly invented. In one, a passenger who argued for cooperating with the hijackers is restrained by others as the counterattack begins. In another, the passengers are shown overwhelming two hijackers and apparently killing them. Both depictions might be dramatically satisfying, but there’s no evidence that either of those events occurred.”

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/27/AR2006042702509.html

  4. Actually, I’m saving my money for the film version of Shock’N Awe. It’d be real cool to experiance the trashing of Baghdad from an Iraqi point of view, especially since they had no connection to 9/11.

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