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Originally Posted by chavez
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.
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Perhaps the vagueness of any legislation that does exist means broadcasters would rather not take the risk.
I mean if you can't even show cigarette packets to illustrate a genuine news article about cigarettes without getting in trouble, you'd have to think that any display of tobacco branding is fraught with risk.
Like I said, I don't agree with it at all - but I can understand why they're nervous.