From: hex@unseen.ac.am 
  
 On 22/09/2025 13:09, JNugent wrote: 
 > On 21/09/2025 11:02 AM, Norman Wells wrote: 
 >> On 21/09/2025 10:22, billy bookcase wrote: 
 >>> "Norman Wells"  wrote in message 
 >>> news:mj8omjF3m7rU9@mid.individual.net... 
 >>>> On 20/09/2025 20:49, billy bookcase wrote: 
 >>>>> "Norman Wells"  wrote in message 
 >>>>> news:mj5v8hFk732U1@mid.individual.net... 
 >>>>>> 
 >>>>>> But you're wrong.€€ You see, for the natural meaning of words in the 
 >>>>>> English language, 
 >>>>>> you need to consult what are called dictionaries. 
 >>>>>> 
 >>>>>> Whereupon you will discover that they all say an advertisement 
 >>>>>> means something along 
 >>>>>> the lines of: 
 >>>>>> 
 >>>>>> "a picture, short film, song, etc. that tries to persuade people to 
 >>>>>> buy a product or 
 >>>>>> service" 
 >>>>> 
 >>>>> " Clunk Click Every Trip 1" 
 >>>> 
 >>>> That was what was invariably referred to as a public information 
 >>>> film, not any sort of 
 >>>> 'advertisement', which I don't think it was. 
 >>>> 
 >>>> If you disagree, why? 
 >>> 
 >>> 
 >>> Had Jimmy Savile only said "Clunk Click Every Trip" to the children 
 >>> and young 
 >>> teenagers ( no corpses presumably ) he took for rides in his Rolls 
 >>> Royce, then 
 >>> nobody else would ever have heard the phrase. 
 >>> 
 >>> Or at least not until 30 or 40 years later 
 >>> 
 >>> No; it was necessary to "advertise" the phrase; in order to present that 
 >>> information to large numbers of people. 
 >> 
 >> Dissemination of information or advice is not necessarily an 
 >> 'advertisement'.€€ Otherwise any factual TV programme or newspaper would 
 >> be pure advertisement and presumably require local authority consent, 
 >> which of course they aren't and don't. 
 >> 
 >> Have you ever heard of public information films being referred to as 
 >> 'advertisements'?€€ If so, where? 
 >> 
 >> If not, they don't appear to be so in common parlance. 
 > 
 > Newspapers advertise all of their content. That is their sole purpose. 
  
 So, in your view, newspapers are 'advertisements'? 
  
 Sorry, I can't agree. 
  
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