Start the week #13

Adverts, shredding, poll results, Air, Calvino, Nasrudin, links

Shoreditch, London, by Terry Freedman

TV Ads

There was a time when television advertisements in Britain assumed a modicum of intelligence on the part of the viewer. Quite often, they assumed that if an ad referenced an event or a work of literature, the audience would ‘get’ it. Not only were many ads the TV equivalent of flash fiction, occasionally they w…