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**Arr34ston** · 06-09-2008, 09:16 PM

Originally posted by Wezil

I don't watch TV or ride the subway. I do hear an ad on radio every now and then.

The difference of course being that I can choose not to watch/listen. Please, you've no more choice in looking at Subway ads than you do watching the ads at gas stations.

Here I have to avoid buying gas.

No, you don't. Not all gas stations have the TVs. Most do not. Yours do not, even.

If your issue is against advertising everywhere, that is a valid discussion. But to blame the government here for including gas stations as a venue for advertising, when they were clearly just one of many mediums available to the ad company they hired, is ridiculous.

The way you and most media are acting and portraying this is the conservatives are subverting every aspect of life. The evil conservatives are installing TVs at life-critical locations to inundate us with supreme propaganda!

A well-reasoned individual would take this away from the situation:
1) The convervatives are using 100% private money to do this, not public
2) The conservatives are only using existing TVs-at-the-pumps showing existing advertising to show the ad which would come at the replacement of the very annoying Pizza Pizza jingle-ads.

This is not a big deal, nor is it worth the front-page hysteria it is getting in terms of media coverage.

FWIW, I quite like the TVs. Most of the content they show are headlines, forecasts, etc. which keep me sufficiently entertained. It's no worse than the "OneStop" plasma screens on the subway or in my apartment building.

06-09-2008, 09:16 PM	#7
Arr34ston Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 412 Senior Member	Originally posted by Wezil I don't watch TV or ride the subway. I do hear an ad on radio every now and then. The difference of course being that I can choose not to watch/listen. Please, you've no more choice in looking at Subway ads than you do watching the ads at gas stations. Here I have to avoid buying gas. No, you don't. Not all gas stations have the TVs. Most do not. Yours do not, even. If your issue is against advertising everywhere, that is a valid discussion. But to blame the government here for including gas stations as a venue for advertising, when they were clearly just one of many mediums available to the ad company they hired, is ridiculous. The way you and most media are acting and portraying this is the conservatives are subverting every aspect of life. The evil conservatives are installing TVs at life-critical locations to inundate us with supreme propaganda! A well-reasoned individual would take this away from the situation: 1) The convervatives are using 100% private money to do this, not public 2) The conservatives are only using existing TVs-at-the-pumps showing existing advertising to show the ad which would come at the replacement of the very annoying Pizza Pizza jingle-ads. This is not a big deal, nor is it worth the front-page hysteria it is getting in terms of media coverage. FWIW, I quite like the TVs. Most of the content they show are headlines, forecasts, etc. which keep me sufficiently entertained. It's no worse than the "OneStop" plasma screens on the subway or in my apartment building.
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