It's been a busy week so I'm a little late on this one. A lot of people are picking on Pittsburgh since our local ABC and NBC affiliates have refused to air Trojan ads for which Pittsburgh was selected as a test market. But I think it's a lot more fantastic that Fox and CBS have rejected the ad nationally altogether. Apparently you're allowed to use Viagra to get it up, just don't slap a rubber on it.
I can rant and rave all day about the hypocrisy of any distributer of modern popular culture being worried about offending public sensibilities. There are commercials on TV these days that I am uncomfortable seeing in the presence of my mother. But rather than dwell on that angrily, I'm going to laugh for a moment at the fact that one of these is Fox.
Yeah, Fox!
This is the network that brought us Married...with Children, Temptation Island, and however many things along the lines of When Animals Attack and Eat the Faces of Innocent Babies, or something. Suddenly these people are worried about sending an appropriate message? For those of you who forgot about it in all it's highbrow glory, Temptation Island was the reality show where they took a bunch of unmarried couples and put them on an island with a bunch of single people to see if they could get them to cheat on each other. I wonder if they let them use condoms in the process.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment