There is no good reason to ban advertising, only advertising which does not provide useful and accurate information about the product. If I am overposting, I am sorry.
Jurriaan
Sometimes you shock me. There are many, many good reasons to get rid of advertising. Off the top of my head: 1. Advertising suggests that we are missing something, that we are incomplete, and that we can only be completed through consumption. 2. Advertising intrudes upon the public space. 3. Advertising (the sort that is beamed on the telly, interrupting something every ten minutes) is not only a violation of the viewer's integrity and the integrity of the show/movie/etc being interrupted, but it is an implicit attack on the very notion of integrity. 4. Advertising is the modern celebration of the seven deadly sins. I mean that quite literally: watch ANY advertisement and ask yourself what is the underlying theme here: lust? gluttony? sloth? envy? wrath? greed? pride?
Joanna
