Posted on 03/29/2009 6:32:43 PM PDT by hreardon
Stop smoking. Drink less. Learn new skills. Stop defrauding the benefit office. Claim tax credits. Wear a condom. Join the Army.
Britons are being bombarded by more than 10,000 government advertisements every day, prompting accusations that Labour is creating the "ultimate nanny state".
Messages from the state were relayed to the population via television, radio, cinema, newspapers, magazines and billboards on more than 3.7 million occasions during 2008, according to new research by media analysts at The Nielsen Company.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Yup. We’re no better here.
“Public Service Announcements” indeed. The vast majority are one liberal indoctrination or another.
I especially like the ones that lecture not to be so much of a racist hater. They make me want to go punch a member of a minority group, and I'm as non-violent as you can find.
How long before the UK government installs “telescreens” in every room of every house and office ala George Orwell.
The Ad Council commercials have contributed to my decision to cancel my XM Radio subscription.
Yes, I also noticed that. I take it that those ads are being transmitted from EIB. I remember that one or two shortwave stations used to rebroadcast Rush, and those Ad Council adverts could be heard during Rush’s breaks along with short comedy bits by Wierd Al (”Spatula City”) and others. I think that local AM stations normally preempt most or all of them with news breaks or local ads. I wonder if EIB gets money from the Ad Council or whether there is some FCC requirement to put stuff like that in.
The ones that drive me totally insane are the ones telling the irresponsible masses that if they have more than 10k in credit card debt that they can settle it for half of what they owe. What really burn my wick at both ends is that these run during conservative talk shows.
The goal is to minimize dead air if the local affiliate didn't sell the time.
But you're right, those are the local spot breaks.
In a previous work career I did radio and television commercial traffic.
Lately we are getting a lot of Obama and move-on ads here — on FOX! Never had this sort of thing under Bush.
Yeah, I saw that film on netflix a while back. Liked it, but as I expected it was less of an anarchic dark comedy about pop culture and political correctness and more of an anti-preppy anti-corporation anti-reagan rant, just a preview of 90’s and 00’s hollywood leftism.
...”IT IS ILLEGAL TO DUMP BODIES IN THE THAMES”....
Your #3 -—THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THOSE ADS ARE DESIGNED TO MAKE YOU DO. THEY keep pushing and pushing you , chastising you for sins you’ve never committed, and just like the old retired Army guy who made the initial mistake of buying magazines from a sex bookshop featuring naked young men, who , after the store was raided and shut down,and his name appeared on a list of patrons, became the object of the most strenuous TWO YEAR campaign , begun, stopped and started no less than THREE times, to get him to buy something by mail to prove some kind of pedophiliac tendencies. You can read it on Wikipedia, and elsewhere, Keith Jacobson is the name. Entrapment is still alive and well, though, in hidden form in the busybody PC PR campaigns that address us and lecture us against doing stuff we’d never do on our own anyway.
Ah, makes sense.
Pretty senseless when the ad is about fat kids whose parents will probably outlive them.
The answer??? We have to build lots of playgrounds whereever there are kids so they can get off their duffs and lose weight!!
So much for the kids telling us how to live our lives!!!
This ad is run constantly, over & over on AM radio.
Yup, “awareness” is another word for “guilt”. Often the type of guilt that prevents people who disagree with a particular government policy from speaking out against it. War on drugs is a good example. Of course, normally PSA’s result in a backlash of sorts. People start making fun of them.
“Stop Defrauding the Benefit Office” is never one I’ve seen or heard in the U.S. If anything, it is the opposite.
Me too. I wasn’t sure if those were PSAs though. Normally they identify the government agency or group responsible for the advert, but those ones don’t. I figured they could deliberately made to sound like government PSA’s but instead be scammers, “debt settlement” loan sharks, or some other “buyer beware” opportunist.
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