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Tuesday, 29 January 2013
Time Warner Cable bans gun ads, will still air all the violent movies Hollywood can churn out
Wanna buy an ad on Time Warner Cable? It'd better not have any scary guns in it!
In the wake of the Newtown massacre, Time Warner Cable is trying something new when it comes to the commercials it broadcasts.
"We've created a policy that effectively bans visual images of automatic weapons and visual images of weapons pointed at people," company spokesman Alex Dudley told WCBS 880 reporter Monica Miller on Friday.
"We felt that this, at this time, particularly in the wake of some of the recent incidents, that this was a policy that we felt strongly about," he said.
Airing right now on Time Warner channel 36, Goodfellas. Nope, no scary guns in that movie, nosirree! On channel 46? A CSI: Miami and Criminal Minds mini-marathon. Good thing there are no scary guns in shows like that either. Later today, when the kids get home from school, they can settle down to watch Law and Order on channel 16, or screen A Bronx Tale.
Curiously, Alex Dudley's sanctimonious preening doesn't extend to the TV programming his company chooses to air, complete with "visual images of weapons pointed at people."
Do you suppose WCBS 880 reporter Monica Miller "forgot" to ask him about that?
Of course she did! I think that's called "journalism." Isn't it?
Posted at 10:26 by Chris Wysocki
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