FastEddie
Since: Apr, 2004
#3: Apr 3rd 2011 at 7:00:46 PM
I believe we've had a long standing policy of "ads are media that we document", it's just that they're rarely actually put up since there's not a whole lot of story to them.
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So some time ago, someone removed all of the actual advertising examples from this page due to reasoning along the lines of "We're a site about media, having most of the examples be from Real Life is ridiculous." I believe the so-called "Real Life" examples (or at least some of them) should be returned under a section marked "Advertising". The trope is under the Commercials Tropes index. It seems silly to me that examples from advertising shouldn't be allowed.
I guess the long and short of it is that advertising is also a medium (several media actually) and I don't see any reason we can't investigate it.
"Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight, but Roaring Bill (who killed him) thought it right." - Hillaire Belloc, The Pacifist