May 31
Projectile babies, grave-crashers and censorship
I’d forgotten about this until some idle browsing reminded me. A few years back, this advert got banned from UK TV.
It was held to be offensive to the feelings of pregnant women and the bereaved. What’s interesting is that no-one seems to have objected to the message that we should “play more”. Instead they objected to the idea that “life is short” when it was portrayed so graphically (and, I think, humorously). Was this censored because the advert was offensive, or because reality is offensive?
May 31st, 2008 at 6:35 pm
I’d forgotten about that advert, very funny. Reality can be offensive can’t it.