From: JNugent73@mail.com 
  
 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. 
  
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