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LOS ANGELES (AP) - They're probably not going to see the movie, either. Activists in a south Los Angeles neighborhood staged a rally to protest the billboard for the upcoming 50 Cent film "Get Rich or Die Tryin'." Paramount Pictures is removing some of the billboards as a result. The billboards depict the rapper, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, holding a gun in his left hand and a microphone in his right. At least two were near schools. A studio spokesman said Friday that Paramount was evaluating the locations of the billboards and taking some down. He declined further...

Anchorage, Alaska - A campaign to boost Alaska tourism is getting national media attention, and that attention has piqued the curiosity of thousands, if not millions, of people. It was Monday when Alaska B4UDIE billboards were unveiled in Seattle, Los Angeles and Minneapolis, as a way to promote Alaska tourism. “We're hoping they do a double-take, but not too long of a double-take while they're driving,” said Ron Peck, president, Alaska Travel Industry Association.

As President Bush addressed the United Nations Wednesday, a new advertising campaign blasting the world organization was going on just outside the UN's New York City headquarters. While the UN began celebrating its 60th anniversary, signs reading "Broken Promises: The United Nations at 60" were plastered on locations surrounding the Turtle Bay building. The advertisements for a new, in-depth documentary on UN failures were purchased by the Citizens United Foundation (view the trailer here). The ad campaign was timed to begin Wednesday as 170 heads of state gathered in NYC for the United Nations World Summit. The ads are located...

Check the map! Are we in Vermont yet?By SHAWNE K. WICKHAMSunday News Staff Jeannie Johnson actually groaned aloud when she heard they had to cut down New Hampshire trees for two Vermont billboards that are quickly becoming infamous. The story just keeps getting worse. Johnson is the coordinator of the governor’s highway safety program in Vermont. That agency paid thousands of dollars to put up two billboards in the middle of New Hampshire that have been turning heads and sparking conversations. Trees were cleared to provide a view of a new billboard on I-293 promoting seatbelt use in Vermont. (BOB...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government does not want billboards in space. The Federal Aviation Administration proposed on Thursday to amend its regulations to ensure that it can enforce a law that prohibits "obtrusive" advertising in zero gravity. "Objects placed in orbit, if large enough, could be seen by people around the world for long periods of time," the FAA said in a regulatory filing. Currently, the FAA lacks the authority to enforce the existing law. For instance, outsized billboards deployed by a space company into low Earth orbit could appear as large as the moon and be seen without...

During the past three decades, Clear Channel Communications of San Antonio has amassed a mammoth media empire, but now it's breaking up into three separate billboard, entertainment and radio companies. The restructuring — announced unexpectedly as Clear Channel released its quarterly earnings — came as the company's profits fell 59 percent during its first quarter, primarily from sagging radio advertising revenues and a downturn in its live entertainment business. “(The restructuring) will provide a springboard for meaningful growth and enhanced value in each of our businesses,'' Clear Channel CEO Mark Mays said during a conference call with analysts. After the...

Some in Hollywood are so angry with a conservative group for posting pro-Bush billboards in their town that they have vandalized them with graffiti – including a Nazi swastika. For a long time, Hollywood claimed it was for diversity – but that apparently does not include someone expressing a conservative or Republican viewpoint. The Hollywood billboards posted by the conservative group Citizens United certainly express a viewpoint. "W. Still President!" shouts one. Another taunts: "Four More Years!" Both, tongue-in-cheek, jeer: "Thank You, Hollywood!" Depicted beneath a smiling and triumphant President Bush, in solemn dejected ranks, are Martin Sheen, Chevy Chase,...

Because President George W. Bush has "ignored the threat of global warming," Floridians can expect to be hit by increasingly destructive hurricanes, a new billboard campaign says. The billboards, going up along Interstate 4 between Tampa and Orlando -- a week before the presidential election -- read, "Global warming equals worse hurricanes. George Bush just doesn't get it." The billboards show a photo of a hurricane swirling toward Florida. The campaign is co-sponsored by Scientists and Engineers for Change and Environment2004. The NAACP National Voter Fund is also involved in the effort to blame Bush for ignoring global warming. more...

One of the pillars on which the alarmist case for doing something about global warming rests is the contention that the 20th century was the warmest in the last thousand years. This proposition is most dramatically expressed in the "hockey stick" graph.............. ************ They found numerous and worrying errors. As they put it, the data "for the estimation of temperatures from 1400 to 1980 contains collation errors, unjustifiable truncation or extrapolation of source data, obsolete data, geographical location errors, incorrect calculation of principal components and other quality control defects." They used the original source data to correct these errors, after...

BILLBOARDS now seen in at least 10 key states show a prancing French poodle, its fur fancily clipped for show, wearing a pink ribbon and a blue Kerry-for-president sweater. The text says: "That dog don't hunt." And: "For 20 years John Kerry has voted against sportsmen's rights." As Election Day approaches, the National Rifle Association is clearing its throat, ready to roar. By now, most of the persuading has been done and attention is turning to mobilization — getting intense constituencies to the polls. Few are more intense than the NRA. If New England is Red Sox Nation, the NRA...

Upset by the message on ProjectUSA billboards in Kansas City, KS, a small group of race-identity activists held a news conference yesterday in front of one of them to complain and demand their removal. Tino Camacho, reports the Kansas City Star, president of the local chapter of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), called the billboards “racist.” "We want the people (ProjectUSA) held accountable because of all the fear that they have created," said Mr. Camacho. "This is very, very … insulting to our community.” A reporter for the Associated Press called ProjectUSA yesterday looking for a response...

Actor Calls for KFC Boycott Over Cruelty to Chickens Nashville — PETA’s brand-new anti-KFC billboard, which shows Pamela Anderson next to the tagline "Boycott KFC—Live Scalding, Painful Debeaking, Crippled Chickens" and steers motorists to KentuckyFriedCruelty.com, has just gone up along I-65 at Cement Plant Road, south side, facing west. img src =

<p>Billboards, posters and drink coasters will deliver a state campaign to try to dissuade older men from having sex with underage girls.</p> <p>The Health Department will bring the campaign to Northern Virginia, Richmond and Roanoke this month and next. The campaign is modeled on a pilot project that ran last July in Hampton Roads, which the department deemed a success.</p>

[snip]The billboard worker owed money he didn't have, so he found a way to erase his debt: He let his creditor cover six billboards with a biblical passage condemning homosexuality. That deal backfired spectacularly, at least for the employee. Billboards are meant to be seen, after all. When sign company executives saw them a few weeks ago, they promptly fired the worker and papered over the unauthorized messages. [snip]

New billboards are getting attention in Arizona.. Here's a list of some of the variations of the "God Speaks" billboards. The billboards are a simple black background with white text. No fine print or sponsoring organization is included. Tell the kids I love them. -God Let's meet at my house Sunday before the game. -God C'mon over and bring the kids. -God What part of "Thou Shalt Not..." didn't you understand? -God We need to talk. -God Keep using my name in vain, I'll make rush hour longer. -God Loved the wedding, invite me to the marriage. -God That "Love...

McMINNVILLE - Retired Air Force Maj. Wes Carter could probably use a lesson or two from anti-war protesters. The disabled Gulf War veteran had hoped to get arrested this week to show his anger at giant new billboards proposed in McMinnville. To accomplish this, he planned to block the doorway to Pogy's Sub Sandwiches, one of five businesses that have signed leases for the billboards. Nobody would arrest him. ``The police said I could stay out here all day if I wanted to,'' he said. Carter was largely responsible for his own inability to get arrested. He chose to protest...

Billboards thank God for Fox News By Kristen Wyatt TUNNEL HILL — This retired ad salesman isn’t the first Fox News Channel junkie to fill up on hours of the popular news outlet every day. But Bob Spratlin is probably the only one buying billboards thanking God for it. Spratlin plunked down a few thousand dollars to buy a billboard that says ‘‘THANK GOD FOR THE FOX NEWS CHANNEL.’’ Another billboard will go up in a nearby town later this year, and Spratlin envisions more, all preaching his deliver-us-from-liberals message. ‘‘I wanted to wake people up,’’ the 73-year-old said. ‘‘I...

It's winter downunder. Right now in Wellington, New Zealand it's 11°C but here's a ray of sunshine as I take a drive along Aotea Quay, past what Wellingtonians affectionately call the Cake Tin - our city's stadium.

Clinton Library Billboards are out. The link has several modifications of what a Clinton billboard should look like.

Man spreads pro-life message with billboards PALM CITY -- Hanging on a wall in Ed Daccarett's home is a framed advertisement for the supposedly unsinkable Titanic. Smiling brightly, Daccarett taps it and says he loves the image. "I have a thing about the Titanic. They said not even God could sink this." Actually, Daccarett, 56, has a thing for taking on Titanic-size causes. "The greatest lesson I have learned is to trust God," he said. Daccarett is president of Life Can, a non-profit Christian organization dedicated to spreading the anti-abortion message. Life Can includes Daccarett's statewide pro-life billboard project and...