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81 Los Angeles Times A1 (January 21, 1992). When the Children's Television
Act of 1990 required stations to increase the number of educational
programmes, they simply characterised whatever they were showing as
educational. WGNO (New Orleans) said of one cartoon: "Good doer
Bucky fights off the evil toads from aboard his ship. Issues of social
consciousness and responsibility are central themes of the program." A
Durham (North Carolina) station said "Superboy" "presents GOOD as it
triumphs over EVIL." WDIV in Detroit said that "Super Mario Brothers"
taught self-confidence because "Yo Yogi" captures the thieving cockroaches,
thereby demonstrating the value of "using his head rather than
his muscles." The Bush Administration had opposed more precise language
as infringing the First Amendment. New York Times A] (September
30, 1992).
82 Guardian 5 (October 29, 1991), 7 (October 30, 1991).
Politicians are past masters at the insinuation that asserts by denying.
Mary Matalin, a leading publicist in the Bush campaign, declared that
Clinton was "evasive and slick. We've never said to the press that he's a
philandering, pot-smoking draft dodger." "The way you just did?" the
interviewer asked? "The way I just did," she conceded. New York Times
A14 (August 5, 1992). The U.S. Treasurer accused Clinton of being a
"skirt chaser" and then apologised. Bush campaign chair Robert Mosbacher
said that marital fidelity "should be one of the yardsticks" by
which candidates are measured" and then apologised. Both accusation
and apology served to spread the dirt. New York Times A7 (August 20,
1992).
83 New York Times s.4 p.5 (March 4, 1990). The Marlboro logo is on
television during half the Grand Prix race and has appeared some 6000
times. New York Times A16 (August 25, 1992) (letter to The Editor,
August 7, reproving Mayor Dinkins for signing a 10-year contract to host
the Grand Prix after calling for removal of tobacco ads from sports
complexes).
84 Los Angeles Times A17 (May 8, 1990).
In December 1989 Pepsi showed video clips of the Berlin Wall coming
down, with its logo and the caption "Peace on Earth." Benneton has
attained notoriety through its ambiguous advertisements featuring catastrophe
and tragedy: a bombed-out car, Albanian refugees climbing an
overcrowded ship, and an Indian couple wading through flooded streets,
a young man dying of AIDS in his father's arms, a murdered Mafia victim
in a pool of blood. New York Times s.2 p.33 (May 3, 1992).
85 New York Times s.4 p.5 (March 22, 1992).
86 New York Times 7 (October 20, 1992). MTV has used Aerosmith to
similar effect as part of its $1 million "Choose or Lose" campaign. Lead
guitarist Joe Perry shouts "Freedom is the right to use handcuffs for
friendly purposes . . . freedom to wear whipped cream as clothing,"
while he licks whipped cream off the chest of a blonde woman. Two
other women wearing American flag suits hold the rim of a gigantic
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