- 22 May 2015 21:37
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It is often said you can have all the free speech you can buy, but even that is false. A case in point is the propaganda put out by the Energy Tomorrow group, an astroturfed offshoot of the American Petroleum Institute. Their slick ads, featuring former soap actress Brooke Alexander, promote fracking in an ingeniously subliminal fashion - they are ubiquitous on American television, part of the daily fabric of Joe Sixpack's consciousness. NoEnergy Tommorrow put together an add to counter this. Their ad was rejected by commercial networks, even though they had the money to pay for air time. The reason given was that the add was too political. Perhaps this makes no sense to you, but it actually does make sense in context (see my sig quote below).
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters. -Antonio Gramsci