Lit. blog for 1/29--Culture Jam

In the book Culture Jam, the author states: "In the former Soviet Union you weren't allowed to speak out against the government. In North America today you cannot speak out against the sponsors." Now this obviously isn't a good thing, but I feel it is true. We don't always really have true freedom of speech. For example, in the book, the author tries to get his commercials on tv, however no station will play them. Now you'd think if someone was willing to pay they would gladly show it. The authors commercials spoke out against commercials they were already airing(ex.the logging industry commercial). They spoke out against what the stations had been promoting. The tv stations didn't like that, so they refused to play the commercials. They didn't want to be fair and show both sides. We do not have freedom of speech when it comes to the commercials. There is a middle man deciding whats worth showing and whats not.

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