Censorious or Sensitive?

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Clear Channel Communications refused to display a peace group's billboard ad in New York's Times Square during the Republican Convention. The ad features a red, white and blue bomb graphic with the words "Democracy Is Best Taught by Example, Not by War." The peace group says Clear Channel also rejected their alternative ad, in which a dove replaced the bomb graphic. (Clear Channel says they found the dove ad acceptable.) A Clear Channel marketing executive explained that New Yorkers "are extremely sensitive to references to war." A peace group spokesperson remarked, "I guess we can have a war, but we can't talk about it."