CBS News: Networks ban W.R. Grace's Deficit Trials commercial by Ridley Scott (1986)

[hadrons]

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Ridley Scott TV commercial on rising deficits get no love from networks.

[Idealism]

1. Sounds like one scary !@#ing movie

:(

[psychmommy]

2. the networks didn't want to open themselves up to

pushing one person's ideas for money. well what the heck happened. because they surely sold out to the gop.

[baldguy]

4. They wouldn't take money for it.

But they would b'cast it for free as "news".

The more things change, the more they remain the same.

[AtheistCrusader]

3. Too bad WR Grace didn't voluntarily spend money on the health care of people it's killed

from the vermiculite mines and town of Libby Montana.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermiculite#Controversy_over_health_risks

[FraDon]

5. • Anybody find a link ...

to the original "THE DEFICIT TRIALS, 2017 AD" commercial? • I loved Blade Runner (an origami cult classic).
.

[lumberjack_jeff]

6. 1986: a debt of Two Trillion Dollars.

Quaint. Kind of like it should be spoken with the right pinky finger at the corner of one's mouth.

At this rate, our debt will be twenty-five trillion at the timeframe shown in the commercial.