Off the Buses!
Here in the UK, we have a colourful history of advertising the official media of fascist regimes.
Why, here is an archive photo of a London bus from the early 1930s.
And here, continuing the tradition, is one from yesterday evening.
Okay, so the first one is a fake. Unfortunately, the second one isn’t. Our grandparents generation clearly had more sense than we do. We have no sense, and it appears we have no shame.
The acceptance of adverts from Iranian state-sponsored broadcaster PressTV, is particularly perverse. Mansour Osanlou, an Iranian transport worker and trade unionist is languishing in jail. Having suffered brutality and torture, he is almost blind from the beatings he received at the hands of the Iranian authorities. But, while his comrades struggle on and while the International Transport Worker’s Union is acting in support of Iranian democrats, our own TfL is taking money to punt their oppressor’s propaganda arm: PressTV.
Incidentally, I wonder what the Advertising Standards Authoritywould make of the claims in the PressTV advert. Laughably, the advert claims the channel “gives as voice to the voiceless” and offers “24/7 truth”. The truly voiceless like Mansour Osanloo don’t get a spot on PressTV, but loudmouth shills and propogandists do.
Comments
| 19 June 2009, 3:43 pm |
According to PressTV, protestors must have killed themseleves:
“Once the Interior Ministry declared Ahmadinejad the winner by a landslide, supporters of Mir-Hossein Mousavi staged rallies in protest at the election results — which indicated that Mousavi had even lost in his hometown. Some of the demonstrations turned violent and resulted in the deaths of at least eight people in Tehran. Many others were injured. ”
| 19 June 2009, 4:03 pm |
Press TV: the beloved viewing of the gullible terrorphiles of the UK!
http://www.oyvagoy.com/2009/02/coronation-street-is-a-zionist-plot/
| 19 June 2009, 5:50 pm |
Similar posters also appear in Victoria rail station in Manchester -also the transport workers’ jurisdiction one would presume.
| 19 June 2009, 5:57 pm |
Godwin, but not the worst basis of comparison.
| 19 June 2009, 6:04 pm |
and London Underground refuse posters of ’sunny Tel Aviv’…
| 19 June 2009, 7:15 pm |
Posters of Sunny Tel Aviv are refused by London Underground?
Are you sure, Romo?
Can anyone diligent list the paid shills on the payroll of the Ayatollahs’ PRESS TV ?
| 19 June 2009, 9:57 pm |
I think it’s a 225, not a 223, Nick. Looks like Sarf London grimness to me.
| 19 June 2009, 11:54 pm |
Afaik control of most uk bus advertising has been outsourced to a subsidiary of CBS – the famous american Tv company. http://www.cbsoutdoor.co.uk/web/Current-news/Newspage-UK.htm?contentid=20336 Guess they’re not too worried about the competition.
| 20 June 2009, 12:02 am |
… And the tube.
| 20 June 2009, 9:16 am |
British MP George Galloway (so-called Respect Party) works for PressTV. He has his own show.
And he’s strongly backing the Iranian regime.
Talk about no shame and no brains.
| 20 June 2009, 10:02 am |
What is it with some on the left that they want to denounce anything they don’t like as a ‘fascist’. It’s not clever and it’s not smart. Makes you wonder what they’d call the genuine article.
| 20 June 2009, 10:16 am |
So you don’t think the Iranian regime is a genuine clerico-fascist one? As Anaximander would say: Oh, dear. Oh dear, oh dear.
Is it Press TV Andrew Gillian works for?
“I should declare that I host a discussion programme on an Iranian government-funded English-language TV channel, though I count myself an opponent of President Ahmedinejad and have criticised him on my show).”
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23709063-details/It+may+not+achieve+much++but+Twitter+is+an+act+of+faith/article.do