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Originally Posted by eduardo1
Slightly off-topic, but related to an earlier post in this thread about the blurring of tobacco signage by C7 last year, Chris Jordan from Nissan PR came across this clipping which explains why. I think it's wrong and draconian, but the law is the law.
http://jordanchris.tumblr.com/post/5...-why-the-seven |
This is a case of adding 2 and 2 together and getting 5.
There is no legislation banning incidental tobacco brand advertising from period TV footage. Lets not confuse the court ruling on contemporary news reports with period footage.
7Mate regularly broadcast rally and formula one documentaries without blurring the tobacco logos.
Channel 7 in Melbourne show Footy Flashbacks everyone Sunday prior to the AFL game and all the pre 1995 games shown tobacco advertising - never blurred.
Muscle Car Masters, also shown on Seven, showed tobacco sponsored cars - not blurred.
The only instance I can recall of tobacco logos being blurred was on Seven's Bathurst coverage last year - for reasons that still remain a mystery.