Toyota dealers pull ads from ABC over ‘excessive’ news coverage

A Prius hybrid sits at a Toyota dealership in Stone Mountain, Georgia, one of the US states where some dealers are pulling ads from ABC television. Photograph: Erik Lesser/EPA

A Prius hybrid sits at a Toyota dealership in Stone Mountain, Georgia, one of the US states where some dealers are pulling ads from ABC television. Photograph: Erik Lesser/EPA

• President of Toyota makes second public apology over brake fault • New television ad seeks to ‘restore faith’ of customers

It is Friday night in Philadelphia. The streets are uncomfortably quiet for a New Yorker.

Watched by millions, the Super Bowl’s commercial breaks were filled with explicit mockery and derision of women In between the beer and auto adverts during last night’s Super Bowl, CBS television spared 30 seconds to address its female audience, with New York Jets’ quarterback Mark Sanchez urging female viewers to learn more about the symptoms of heart attacks. “You’re important to me,” he said, as the prerecorded sound of his heart beat in the background

Reporting from Washington – In a high-stakes bid to revive his healthcare overhaul, President Obama announced during a pre-Super Bowl television interview that he would convene a bipartisan summit in which Republicans and Democrats would try to forge a compromise while a national TV audience watched.
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