The rejected video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0vvSrbMAnU&feature=related
Posted on 11/26/2007 10:15:12 AM PST by redrunner
November 23, 2007 —
Adbusters, the Canadian culture jamming magazine largely responsible for propagating Buy Nothing Day, has once again been rejected in its attempt to buy advertising on MTV in promotion of the anti-consumerist holiday. MTV's Advertising Standards representative, Elisa J. Billis, didn't deny that the rejection was based soley on the message of the ad, simply saying that "the spot goes further than we are willing to accept on our channels."
The ad features a burping animated pig and seeks to illustrate the divide in the amount of waste produced by the richest and poorest countries in the world. Such a perspective is often left out of the climate change conversation which has so recently burst into prominence in the mainstream media. Kalle Lasn, co-founder of Adbusters, says the message of the ad is essential to any dialogue about the subject:
MTV is acting irresponsibly. Any good corporate citizen should recognize that messages like the one in our commercial are gravely needed at this time. The onus is on us, the one billion most affluent people on the planet—the upper 20% that consumes 80% of the world's resources—to rise to the occasion with an abrupt change in our lifestyles.
While in theory it is hardly surprising that such a message would have a difficult time finding its way to television—a medium that is almost entirely financed by corporations trying to convince people to buy more—the degree of political censorship involved in such a decision is a bit stifling.
The rejected video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0vvSrbMAnU&feature=related
While I can support the message of separating consumerism from Christmas, this is not the message of the Socialists.
Their message is that we are greedy capitalist pigs.
Communism kills. Humanity should have learned this lesson by the examples of the past.
AND PRODUCE 80% of THE WORLDS WEALTH. At least!
These misguided souls are just sad in their attempt to bring down our economy.
Kind of hypocritical of them to buy advertising time, isn’t it?
Good for MTV, they didn’t run the “Blame America” add. Im a little surprised they didn’t, as they are not exactly the most conservative business in the US, but Im glad they rejected those anti-capitalist’s and anti-prosperity propaganda add. It’s strange that an anti-capitalist movement spends its money in the free market to promote its ideas.
MTV, the peak of the counter-culture, doing the bidding of the capitalist corporations... It’s kinda fun to watch the in-fighting... Basically, MTV is not going to bite the hand that feeds them...
Capitalism, free markets are kind and compassionate by their very nature. They allow for people to excel and reach their dreams.
MTV’s executive also may have thought that the commercial was simply stupid....because it is....
Not a fan of debt driven consumerism, less of a fan of moronic socialistic agit propaganda.
The poor dears, apparently enough people have donated money to purchase the ad time, that would tend to weaken their argument...
The arrogance and utter hypocrisy of the Left in thinking that they're so much better and smarter than us proles knows no bounds.
How bad do you have to be to be "not good enough for MTV" ???
MTV is not the peak of the counter culture. It is part of the vast Viacom media monopoly.
Nothing on MTV is cutting edge. It is prefab. And consumerism rules the roost. “Bling” would be a foreign concept if it wasn’t for eMpTyV.
Adbusters has really changed over the past several years. It used to be a semi-coherent diatribe against consumer waste and ignorance, but now it seems as though it is nothing but a tired old retread of the ideas of the American left; dissent for dissent’s sake. You’re right about the hipocrisy of buying ad time, but remember, this is the same organization that marketed a Converse All-Star shoe with a black dot on the side to stick it to the capitialist pigs at Nike.
And I’m sure that they would be among the first to cite the “lower turn out on Black Friday” as a sign that the Bush economy is “floundering”.
Those numbers are way off from their “standard whine”-
The standard whine from the left is that America has “5% of the world’s population consuming 25% of the world’s resources”.
But, you’re right, with that 25% of the world’s resources, we’re producing WAY more than 25% of the world’s GDP.
The other countries are just wasteful and inefficient, usually because they lack a free market.
mmmmmmmmmm, pork chops.
MTV airs everything else which corrupts our culture, why not these anti-capitalist pinkos?
MTV-Viacom never tells their audience to say “No” to ANY self-pleasure, including shopping.
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