Battling CAIR, Conservative Group Targets Tampa Tribune Advertisers

Submitted by Anonymous on April 3, 2012 - 8:12am

Opening another front in its battle against the Hillsborough County School District and a Muslim group, the Florida Family Alliance is attacking a local newspaper's advertising base.

Blasting the Tampa Tribune's "biased" coverage, FFA is targeting 32 of the paper's online advertisers. FFA claims that 34 others have already pulled their ads.

"The Tampa Tribunes omission of the facts and propaganda about [the Council on American-Islamic Relations] is far more destructive than one CAIR official talking to a few hundred students," said FFA president David Caton.

Calling the Tribune's overall news coverage "very subjective," Caton said the paper is giving the school board "cover" to continue a policy of allowing Muslim representatives to speak on campus.

"So we're going after Tribune advertisers with an email campaign," Caton said.

By contrast, Caton applauded the news coverage aired by Tampa News 9.

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