Pro-Internet Gambling Coalition Increases Efforts to Combat Adelson

Poker News – The Coalition for Consumer and Online Protection completed its initial three-week, $250,000 media campaign to fight against a federal ban on Internet gambling, spending the money on advertisements that ran on the home pages for the websites of The Washington Post, the Las Vegas Review-Journal and Politico. The coalition took over the front page of The Washington Post’s site in the D.C. region with a banner ad across the top of the front page, additional boxes on each side of the Post masthead and a rollover box giving facts above the site’s popular stories. The ads urged…