
the more mass media advertising affects the market the more companies will spend on advertising; thus a greater percentage of what we pay will covering the ad budget.
Also, many small producers won't have the finance for large campaigns and will be forced out of the market
soz about the delayed response, kittins were going mad
and I'm not really a commie, honest guv ;)
EDIT: but I love wheelchair ramps
they're great for office chair races :)
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Fri 6 Apr 2007, 13:37,
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Also, many small producers won't have the finance for large campaigns and will be forced out of the market
soz about the delayed response, kittins were going mad
and I'm not really a commie, honest guv ;)
EDIT: but I love wheelchair ramps
they're great for office chair races :)

I hate having to pay the licence fee, but I do think it's a good thing the BBC is independant and free from relying on commericials, business magnates etc.
Just look at the state of some of the reporting on the American channels :-S
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Fri 6 Apr 2007, 13:44,
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Just look at the state of some of the reporting on the American channels :-S

It has an international commercial wing which gives money to the non-commercial wing, while still using the name BBC, which makes the non-commercial part a kind of huge* publicity stunt to improve the image of the commercial part.
Also it accepted millions of - some currency or other - from the EU recently.
*And compulsory
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Fri 6 Apr 2007, 13:52,
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Also it accepted millions of - some currency or other - from the EU recently.
*And compulsory

but it receives nothing from the license fee & the editorial control of the news operation is effectively under the same management as the rest of BBC news
/can only speak from a news point of view blog
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/can only speak from a news point of view blog

I think the BBC is a business, which ought to dare to make the license fee optional and spread its puny little commercial wings. There's no reason to suppose it would turn into another Sky as a result; there's no room in the market for a second Sky, and the BBC has already cornered the market for middle-class niceness and alleged integrity, so presumably it would stay there.
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This seems to have become an argument against all forms of advertising, now, not just the ones that escape your attention like Sky.
Well - it would all hinge on whether people choose advertised products over unfamiliar ones for reasons, or whether you think they're just conditioned like rats. Which depends on your ideas about psychology - it depends if you accept behaviourism and the idea that people can be blindly conditioned.
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Fri 6 Apr 2007, 13:58,
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Well - it would all hinge on whether people choose advertised products over unfamiliar ones for reasons, or whether you think they're just conditioned like rats. Which depends on your ideas about psychology - it depends if you accept behaviourism and the idea that people can be blindly conditioned.