Tipsy Mac wrote: » I remember advertising cribs for sale was deemed illegal.
SteveC wrote: » What??? :eek: You're kidding!
mikemac wrote: » It'll be Happy Holidays soon like the USA. You can't offend anyone with that
Biggins wrote: » Remember the adverts where famous stars were clicking their fingers every second and saying that for every click, a child dies in Africa of starvation? - RTE banned that advert because... the idiots said it was political! (I kid you not).
Tipsy Mac wrote: » Sadly yeshttp://www.independent.ie/national-news/row-erupts-after-radio-ban-on-christmas-advert-1564568.html
SteveC wrote: » That's just wrong. I'm not religious at all but that's taking censorship too far. What will be next? No advertising of Easter eggs?? :rolleyes:
Elmo wrote: » Please provide a source for this, I don't think this to be the case. Also RTÉ tend not to ban ads, that is the job of the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) and the Broadcasting Complaints Commission (BCC).
...banned the ads, deciding that the ads were "wholly or mainly political" in nature, since they aimed to "achieve important changes".
Elmo wrote: » Easter Eggs aren't religous! They are safe. However if a Priest was to start advertising Easter Eggs then their might be a problem.
The commission banned the advert because they considered that it was using advertising towards religious ends which is forbidden by legislation. ... This is the third time that a Veritas ad has been banned by the commission. Last Christmas it vetoed an ad that mentioned the word crib. Earlier this year a second one was banned because it advertised the sale of First Holy Communion gifts and described them as 'spiritual'.
SteveC wrote: » From the article that was linked to (excerpts): I'm reading that to mean that it's forbidden to use a 'religious' event to promote your goods. Cribs use Christmas, Easter eggs use Easter etc. is it not the same thing? I doesn't seem to matter who is doing the advertising. I'm not saying I know anything about this, I just think it's an odd law to have in a predominantly Christian country.
Radio and Television Act, 198810.— (3) No advertisement shall be broadcast which is directed towards any religious or political end or which has any relation to an industrial dispute.
Broadcasting Act, 2001 65.—Nothing in section 20(4) of the Act of 1960 or section 10(3) of the Act of 1988 (including either of those sections as applied by this Act) shall be construed as preventing the broadcasting of a notice of the fact— (a) that a particular religious newspaper, magazine or periodical is available for sale or supply, or (b) that any event or ceremony associated with any particular religion will take place, if the contents of the notice do not address the issue of the merits or otherwise of adhering to any religious faith or belief or of becoming a member of any religion or religious organisation.
SteveC wrote: » So to answer the OP's question, it's probably not illegal for 'Happy Christmas' advertisements as long as that's all they are. i.e. provided the ad isn't "Happy Christmas, Catholics are better than Muslims" or something, regardless of whether it was the local hardware store or the local priest placing the ad.
First Holy Communion gifts and described them as 'spiritual'.
Run_to_da_hills wrote: » Christmas has now officially a pagan feast for the heathen.
Kernel32 wrote: » I don't know all the ins and outs of the laws but it probably all relates to how RTE is funded. RTE is partially funded through public money in the form of a license fee. Therefore RTE is not a private entity but is funded through tax payers money. Any organization or company that accepts public money in this way can he held to different regulations than a company that is entirely privately funded. Based on that premise it makes total sense to me that RTE would not be allowed to promote one religion over another as the collection of the license fee does not distinguish in any way what the religion is of those who pay it. This of course leads to all sorts of disputes about what constitutes the promotion of a religion versus the advertisement of something religious for sale.
mikemac wrote: » I wasn't referring to that at all I just posted that many Americans say "Happy Holidays" as they fear "Happy Christmas" will offend some people.
Kernel32 wrote: » Where you see PC gone mad, I see capitalism.
<3BeingIN6th wrote: » It offends me. I'm not Christian, but I don't like seeing people's beliefs being sanitised in order to protect the sensitivities of a bored D4 housewife.
Tha Gopher wrote: » Surely happy holidays is offensive to any poor sod who is down on funds and decided to work every day of the Christmas period?
SteveC wrote: » A bit of a search turned up this. It seems to be what's relevent to this thread.Link.Link I'm still unsure of how that can be construed to mean that advertising cribs or literature is illegal - unless the caveat of promoting the religion itself was in the particular advertisement. So to answer the OP's question, it's probably not illegal for 'Happy Christmas' advertisements as long as that's all they are. i.e. provided the ad isn't "Happy Christmas, Catholics are better than Muslims" or something, regardless of whether it was the local hardware store or the local priest placing the ad.
