MEDIAWATCH: Why do we need adverts on Christmas Day and Sunday?
TV and radio stations are also now allowed to broadcast ads on Christmas Day, Good Friday and Easter Sunday under the law change, which was confirmed after a conscience vote in Parliament today.
TV broadcasters will also be permitted to screen ads on Anzac Day morning, just as radio stations have been allowed to.
The changes mean TVNZ will be able to broadcast ads during Sunday morning shows such as Q+A, Waka Huia and Marae, and Three can screen ads during the likes of The Hui.
FFS!
Why the living Christ must we have corporate bullshit screamed into our faces on Sunday mornings and Christmas?
Can’t we have broadcasting on Sunday morning’s and Public Holidays on State media where we don’t have advertisers ramming their crap down our throats?
WHY CAN’T WE HAVE MEDIA SPACE WHERE ADVERTISERS AREN’T CHOKING US OUT ON THEIR CONSUMERISM?
How much shit do you people need to constantly buy to fill that bleak hollow sadness in your empty lives?
We are citizens, not bloody consumers, having space in the media where the hawking arseholes of consumerism aren’t screaming into our face every single second is a blessing.
It’s not that I really care about the birth of Jesus Christ, (good luck to anyone who wants to take their moral compass from an invisible flying wizard who sends his only son off to get nailed to a cross by his own creations), it’s that I care deeply about space where consumerism isn’t dominant.
Sunday mornings are for civic debate, not a fucking sales pitch for Briscoe’s.
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Martyn – Short Answer: We do not need them
Am I the only person who notices that even during these ad-free times we still have ads?
The advertisers pretend that advertising the media themselves isn’t real advertising, and therefore allow it.
Why does the NZ Public put up with this? Sheer stupidity?
No ads should have always meant NO ADS.
Now we are getting what we deserve for putting up with that crap – full ads at all times.
Am I the only person who notices that even during these ad-free times we still have ads?
The advertisers pretend that advertising the media themselves isn’t real advertising, and therefore allow it.
Why does the NZ Public put up with this? Sheer stupidity?
No ads should have always meant NO ADS.
Now we are getting what we deserve for putting up with that crap – full ads at all times.
I don’t like it, but maybe it’s because most people identify as godless atheist consumers.
Because it’s all about “Work, Buy, Consume, Die …”! (oh, I forgot to mention ‘Growing the Economy’)
Bell Palsy.
We can’t deny the greedy big boys/girls anything. The adverts must be allowed. The Business God will not be mocked! We are bowing, unctuous numbskulls and wouldn’t know how to enjoy Christmas anyway. Ads can brighten up dull lives and minds and help people get together festively mingling while they shop for wonderful and delicious things at special prices not to be seen for another year, or tomorrow on Boxing Day anyway. And it’s environmentally beneficial as each household doesn’t have to have a
Christmas tree and messy tinsel, and then if they can’t afford it anyway, look at the splendid displays that can be set up at shopping malls which would be nicer than their own garages or other hovels.
There are a number of good ideas that you can use you promotion workers, and present them as your own at the coming Christmas action meetings. Feel free.
Briscoes Lady so sincerely sincere and niiicce.
I’m very surprised that Luxon the God botherer will even allow this to happen, my temple shall be a house of prayer and all that.