Re: Advertising

[Kenneth Campbell <kkc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

joanna bujes wrote:

>I dont' want ANY messages, healthy or not, being
>broadcast about. I was never exposed to any form
>of advertisement until I emigrated to Paris in
>63...and then to the US in 64. My immediate
>reaction to it was that I felt manipulated and
>insulted. I still feel that way.

Sorry I missed this exchange back when. I have a relaxed weekend now, so
read through some posts from people whose opinions I appreciate -- like
you and Andy Nachos there.

You _should_ feel manipulated and insulted.

Advertising is not like free speech. It is a monopolistic control of the
media. I do support the right of Ernst Zundel to write his little
pamphlets about the Holocaust. If anyone wants to pick them up, fine. I
do not support the licence of the airwaves to private interests. And the
use of that licence to peddle shit and then claim some constitutional
right.

But, if accepting the above, I do agree with what Justin notes: how you
draw the line at what is and is not okay is the point.

I prefer a wide margin. I'd let in everything rather than set up rules
about what can't enter. I think the Russian formulation of censorship --
and that censorship was Russian, not socialist -- sunk socialism in
North America more than any CIA fantasy of conspiracy.

Ken.

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Call this war by whatever name you may, only call it
not an American rebellion; it is nothing more or
less than a Scotch Irish Presbyterian rebellion.
          -- Hessian officer, 1778