"Carl Waring" wrote in message
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The BBC have been instrumental in encouraging and promoting graffiti
for 10 years now.

I'm sure that you will be able to back-up this claim with facts and
also cite credible sources for your statement.

Or not, as the case may be.

Oh, hang on. I /was/ thinking that you might actually be moaning about
the BBC's (and every other broadcasters) use of DOGs but I've just
noticed the other group you x-posted this to.

I assume that you must be on about the advertising of it's programming
that the BBC (and every other broadcaster) does around London, etc.

If so, what's the bloody problem? Are you exceptionally stupid or
something?

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What you call advertising, is what I regard as graffiti and vandalism.

So, to you, any billboard is graffiti and vandalism; or just the
BBC-specific ones?

A very odd POV in either case.





It depends on the context and place.

There are certain places such as urban built up areas where there is dead
space like railway bridges and the sides of industrial units or fly overs,
when I don't have a problem with adverts.

There are certain places where I have a great big problem with adverts:
Springs to mind, the top of peoples' heads, scenery, drama and films,
documentaries, scientific or artistic material, the countryside, public open
spaces, public squares, the central action on sporting events, news
bulletins, etc.

I could not give a monkeys whether you or the BBC do not agree with my POV.
So long as they cause me offence (or you concur with), I will not pay them
nor subsidise your entertainment.

On general balance, advertising does more harm to the world than good, not
precluding some of its benefits. I am extremely hostile to advertising, and
this is one of the key factors that therefore makes me more hostile to the
BBC than irony of ironies commercial television.