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Have you ever seen this on American TV? Cuz I haven’t (and here’s why)...
Via The Largest Minority. See StopLandmines.org for more info.
(Technorati tags: UN landmines PSA)
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comments
posted by Ryan H (Tue Dec 18 07, 5:40PM)
That may be the most brutal spot I have ever seen. I can see why they are having trouble selling it to networks. Really fantastic though. Thanks for the clip.
posted by Signal30 (Tue Dec 18 07, 10:33PM)
Agreed.
The thing damned is? Part of the audience (if exposed to it) would think that it's about teh terrorists planting landmines in our schoolyards.
posted by bronxbee (Wed Dec 19 07, 10:54AM)
"...the allotment of time offered to public service messages has plummeted since the federal government dropped it as a licensing requirement in 1985."
our corporate overlords are making sure we aren't exposed to any ideas of any kind... i wonder if Haliburton makes landmines? somehow, i'm sure they do.
posted by bitchen frizzy (Wed Dec 19 07, 11:43AM)
I doubt the networks give a damn what ideas you get exposed to, unless they inspire you to watch less television.
Its all business.
posted by MBI (Wed Dec 19 07, 1:18PM)
Personally, I just don't find it that effective, although I already knew what it was about so that may have effected my rating. I think it's ham-handed and, by necessity, it's not allowed to be that graphic either. Compare it to this little clip from Canada (http://www.bestweekever.tv/2007/11/28/the-most-terrifying-canadian-psa-of-all-time/) for something far more effective, although I really have to wonder if the cause they're going for is important enough to warrant such a horrifying PSA.
The article notes that it's too long for most networks' formats, and I think that shortening it would at least make it a better ad. Of course, it's obvious why it's never going to air -- so many Americans are fucking pansies who would bitch and complain about seeing such an ad. Some people just don't want to be provoked or made to think about any damn thing.
posted by Hdj (Wed Dec 19 07, 2:22PM)
I'm a bad man, I laughed, lol its just so F'd up, it's like a scene out of a troma movie.I meen why a soccer field? That mine would have triggered right away. These mines from around the world are from care less guerillas.
Plus we can't have a commercial of a bomb going off every 3 hours.
posted by MaryAnn (Thu Dec 20 07, 1:28AM)
Actually, there was a time when the networks were considered to hold the public airwaves -- the *public* airwaves -- in trust, and were required to devote a certain percentage of airtime to content that was in the public interest, like educational programming.
Now, like every other damned resource, the airwaves have all but been sold to the highest bidders.
And here, ladies and gentlemen, is why we need PSAs like this one, and why we'll never see them: Because people are proud ignoramuses. Yes, Hdj, it's fucked up. Why a soccer field? Because children are disproportionately maimed and killed by landmines. If one million American children had been killed by landmines in the last quarter century the way that one million non American children have, Americans would be pissed.
No, I guess we can't have a commercial with a bomb going off every three hours. God forbid Americans get a little smack out of their ignorance and self-centeredness.