Rantz Exclusive: Seattle Times cancels $18k ad buy because it promoted church, pastor says
Would they have done this to a mosque?
The Seattle Times canceled an $18,500 Easter Sunday ad buy after the publisher learned it promoted a church, according to a local pastor.
Pastor Russell Johnson of The Pursuit NW church has campuses in Seattle, Snohomish and Kirkland. He planned an Easter Sunday Spadea advertising spread in the Seattle Times to help support the church’s growth. The ads were to appear on the front flap and back page, along with an ad on the interior of the newspaper, according to an advertising agreement the paper shared with The Jason Rantz Show on KTTH.
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David Voldzko is very familiar with this kind of treatment from The Seattle Times.