Adbusters are organising their TV turnoff week! by Adbusters Tuesday April 22, 2003 at 01:16 PM |
But they hit the corporate wall at MTV. Their "clearance department" didn't like the simple, quarter-minute "TV-Head" uncommercial. How's that for free speech from the station with attitude?
It's time to put on the ol' jamming boots and tell MTV that The People own the airwaves and profit-hungry corporations ain't the only ones allowed to buy air time:
- storm MTV studios,
- clog their online message boards,
- jam their "rants and raves" page, and
- plug their phone lines (1-212-258-8000) with your calls to keep the airwaves free. Check our website for links and an action forum: http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/tvturnoff/jam_mtv.html
But MTV can't hold them back. Adbusters have already got airtime on CNN Headline News for one showing of the TV-Head uncommercial (6:06 pm EST Sunday, April 20).
Meanwhile, people around the world are into TV Turnoff Week. See the TV Turnoff contact list to register your action or connect with someone near you:
http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/tvturnoff/toolbox/contacts.jhtml
Finally, the TV Turnoff toolkit has posters, mp3 audio clips, short video spots and other anti-TV experiments. Check the sidebar info at: http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/tvturnoff/