Saturday, August 09, 2003

Our culture in our times
*Ø* Blogmanac | The Ad Subtractors, Making a Difference

"The successes of Ruskin's five-year-old group, Commercial Alert, may represent the tip of a broad backlash against corporate incursions into health care, education, culture and government. Some believe such activism, known variously as ad-busting, culture-jamming, anti-corporatism and mental environmentalism, is the beginning of the next major social movement in America ...

"Alcohol ads on NBC are dead because of Commercial Alert.

"AOL Time Warner's plan to put ads on 'CNN Student News,' a program aired in 18,000 schools across the country, is dead."

From the Washington Post
Commercial Alert

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