On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 00:06 -0500, wjhonson@aol.com wrote:

> Public-service broadcasting does have ads.  For one they advertise

> themselves, they also advertise their own sponsors ("Paid for by the

> Annenburg Group"... and so on).

> 

> But the sort of advertisement of which we're speaking isn't that sort

> anyway.  Broadcast media forces the consumer to watch it from

> beginning to end, you can't flip back and forth through the pages.

> Newspring advertisement can be completely ignored, not read at all,

> you can't do that with broadcast advertisement except to turn off the

> television when the ads come on.

> 

> So I think we're not like a broadcast at all.  We're like a print

> vehicle, where a reader can flip from page 2 to page 15 then back to

> page 7 at their whim.  The advertisements are not in-your-face.

I suggest - before anyone else wastes *any* time on this they read the

WMF and Wikinews mission statements quite carefully.

This can't be done as part of a WMF project - I'm surprised anyone even

proposed it. 

-- 

Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org>

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Brian_McNeil

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