Not in Our Name ad

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Wondering what you all think of the Not in Our Name TV spot, directed by Barbara Kopple, which MTV has refused to air.

You can find the ad at http://www.notinourname.net/NION_tv_ad/tv_ad.html.

Would this have been an effective ad should it have aired? Was MTV right or wrong not to have aired it? etc. An article about the ad here.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 14 March 2003 19:23 (twenty-three years ago)

New answers. And please watch the commerical before you comment.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 14 March 2003 19:23 (twenty-three years ago)

in terms of the commercial itself, the direction's pretty poor.

i wonder what the budget for the production was -- it could have been done a lot better.

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 14 March 2003 19:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah I wish MTV would have showed it (just to have something out there) but it's really not a particularly compelling or though provoking ad. That said it might have gotten kids going to rallies or whatever just cuz it seems like the "hip" thing that everyone is doing.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 14 March 2003 21:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I guess I was wondering what everyone thought of hitching a "No War" message--and one without any real arguments attached--onto this particular style of advertising.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 14 March 2003 22:02 (twenty-three years ago)

They should have shot it in some other locales besides NY. It just makes it look like New Yorkers being New Yorkers. And those damn accents. Seems like it have more resonance w/ a broader youth population if the displayed a broader youth population espousing those views.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 14 March 2003 22:03 (twenty-three years ago)

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