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Have you heard of Addbusters? It is not exactly what you are thinking
about, but it is a magazine that is hard on big corporations and all of
their *evil* advertisements.
Luisa
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Lawrence DeBivort wrote:
> Consumer Reports allows commercial advertising by the manufacturers of
> products Reports covers. I am wondering about the viability of an even more
> hard-nosed anti-commercial service. Perhaps it might be the beginning of a
> subset of society in which truth, modesty and accountability are honored in
> practice. I know, I know...I'm dreaming.
>
> Lawrence
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf Of
> > Wade T.Smith
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 11:00 AM
> > To: memetics list
> > Subject: RE: Words From Our Sponsor: A Jeweler Commissions a Novel
> >
> >
> > On 09/04/01 10:17, Lawrence DeBivort said this-
> >
> > >What about creating a website that would display solid information about
> > >products, vetted by the website owners, as long as the product
> > manufacturers
> > >excused themselves from any commercial advertising?
> >
> > That sounds like Consumer Reports.
> >
> > Which is a subscription service, mostly because it doesn't allow
> > advertising.
> >
> > - Wade
> >
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