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Wednesday, July 07, 2004

Common sense 0 - Stupidity 1

I've just read this article which goes on to report that some advertising for the band Outkast has been branded as "irrisponsible" by the advertising watchdog, because the image shows one of the band members holding a gun - a pink one at that. It seems to me that it is incredulous that something like this should be slammed in this way, when there are far, far more offensive things in the media and in the consumer market which glorify gun use; the example in the news article being that of James Bond.

What was once common sense, now seems to be rather uncommon sense.

1 Comments:

  • That's flaming mad! Considering all the "Urban" music stars who glorify real non-pink guns, gangs, etc... I don't think Outkast are of that ouvre.

    Sounds like the ASA have taken aim and shot the wrong target.

    By Blogger nic, at 8:06 pm  

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