CNN is just sick

[TomInTib]

They break from the Amish thing and go directly to a Zestra commercial.

"women can now enhance their level of sexual arousal", or something to that effect.

Who in the hell is running THAT shit?.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. I'm pretty sure the commercials are laid out

well prior to their actual airing and have nothing to do with whatever is going on with the news at that particular time.

So there's no point in getting worked up if CNN airs a story about the victims getting shot execution style and then cutting to a commercial saying "Head On- apply directly to the forehead!"

[TomInTib]

4. I understand that, but I have also been in the booth before

There are (or there used to be) cut-aways to avoid that sort of thing.

But, hey - maybe it is just an accurate reflection of our society.

Don't get me wrong, I am 100% for female sexual arousal.

[displacedtexan]

2. The 3 major networks used to be very careful with that.

No 2 similar products' commercials aired back-to-back, and you wouldn't see
a Preparation H commercial in the same break as a restaurant ad.

Now, it's just whatever comes next.

[LTR]

6. Some more tasteful scheduling is definitely in order

When I worked in radio, I used to arrange the carts with the commercials (before computer automation made this all obsolete) in the most tasteful way possible. No way was I gonna go into a talkset immediately after a pimple cream or femenine hygeine product ad. Not happening.

You are right about ad placement. Competitors are usually not placed back-to-back, and some products are not in the same ad breaks. Also, in the event of an airline tragedy, all airline advertising is usually pulled.

If CNN or other networks had some common sense, 'sexual arousal' ads would be buried in a break. Not a good idea to go from news right into something like that. I think it would have also sick to go into that from a Foley report.

[displacedtexan]

8. I guess young people aren't as affected by ad placement.

The ones now slotting the ads were raised not to be offended by
feminine hygeine products and/or pimple cream.

With the sweet comes the sour, I guess; but a little
compassion wouldn't hurt.

[cynatnite]

3. Maybe they got it from 'The Howling'...

I'm being facetious, I know, but I do remember towards the end of the movie, the newswoman turns into a werewolf, her friend kills her and they break to commercial. It was about dogfood.

People don't use their heads. Money's taken over.

[blm]

5. It's the world we live in - by consumerism and for consumerism.

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[dflprincess]

7. Locally (Minneapolis/St Paul) they broke away from the Lancaster story

to a campaign ad for Repuke Mark Kennedy, telling people Democrats would take their guns away. OOPS.

Rumor has it Kennedy has now pulled that ad.

[Ron Green]

9. It's all the same - dead girls and Spanish fly.

The important thing is entertainment without context, whether it involves families' grief or some bullshit drug for sexual arousal. As long as the images come in an unending stream of prurience and horror, people will watch and be diminshed, and consume. It's quite a brilliant plan, actually.