I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.
I get notes posted on my windscreen wipers and through my letterbox.
I've been trying to cram myself down the throats of America for a longer time than I care to remember.
Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages.
The consumer has paid a ticket price to watch a movie and he/she is being subjected to a massive 15 minutes or more of advertising thereby driving him/her away from coming to the theatre. This has to stop.
We already know that spam is a huge downside of online life. If we're going to be spammed on our telephones wherever we go, I think we're going to reject these devices.
Credit card companies and banks usually aren't shy when they're trying to sell you something. Heck, Wells Fargo didn't even bother to ask consumers before signing them up for as many as two million checking and credit card accounts.
Reality TV is a totally different animal than the infomercial world.
The only thing that really annoys me is when all of a sudden you hear yourself on the radio advertising Smith's tyre shop or Blenkinsop's jam. They simply can't do that. And in Australia, occasionally I have to take action.
Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever.
