Alcohol Concern says it wants to ban all adverts for booze before the watershed in order “to give parents the peace of mind of knowing that their children can be kept safe from the influence of advertising”. I have a few problems with this entire line of reasoning. Firstly, how many kids decide they want [...]
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Facebook messes up with BNP page skyscraper ads
Vodafone, the world’s largest mobile phone company, has pulled all its “skyscraper” adverts from Facebook today because one of them was positioned on the British National Party’s page. Vodafone’s official line is that it doesn’t want to be associated with “any” political party, although something tells me the BNP’s “send ‘em back where they come [...]
Cancelled
Glasgow city council has decided to engage with the problem of fly posters by sticking “Cancelled” stickers on them. I’m doubtful this is going to have any meaningful effect. In the short term, it’s going to confuse people, who’ll think that major events have been cancelled when they haven’t. In the long term, nobody is [...]
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