An opportunity for Civil Conversation

[Chris Macrae]

I'm always a bit scared (beyond my depth) about radical democracy but I did
feel pretty angry about this story- if anyone feels I've misworded it, I'd
appreciate editing advice- on the other hand if you feel like voting on whether
CBS merits a future if the circumstances portrayed by moveon.org are correct,
then please do vote
Chris Macrae
http://www.beyond-branding.com/blog/blogger.html

SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 2004
why you may never see the greatest ad ever made...
...
the eye-catching opening second: ten-year olds working in a steelworks

cut several times to other big industry factory lines peopled by kids

no words just ominous sounding music for 20 seconds

then silence and 10 seconds for the caption :

who else did you think would be paying back America's debt?

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If not the world's biggest conversation, I would have thought this should be
one of America's biggest. But apparently CBS won't screen it even though
American people have collected to pay the money their superbowl rate card demands.
Unless there is an explanation that's currently alluding my grey cells, I
conclude CBS and parent viacom don't believe in freedom of speech

A few years ago the idea that the public could rate a global empire the size
of Andersen as too untrustworthy to be worth having around seemed unlikely.
>From all our research at Beyond-Branding, it seems time to rip down a big
networked media company. Perhaps CBS is the goat that needs to be sacrificed; its
not this company's first offence against public decency as the documentary on
who tried to block freedom of speech in exposing how much tobacco companies new
about addiction to deadly habits showed.

You can vote for the future of CBS here.
http://www.fastcompany.com/poll/?x=1127


-----Original Message-----
From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Harrison
Owen
Sent: 11 December 2003 16:16
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: An opportunity for Civil Conversation

Folks - Up for a little radical Democracy???


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