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7th September 2011, 07:45 PM
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The Gruen Transfer
Did anyone watch it tonight?
The bit called selling the impossible was selling to Australia to ditch all religions. If you missed the two competeing ads you maybe able to view them on the gruen website. 
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7th September 2011, 07:48 PM
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Re: The Gruen Transfer
Certainly did. Linky here: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/gruentransfer/thepitch.htm
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7th September 2011, 09:27 PM
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Re: The Gruen Transfer
I saw it. Interesting how uncomfortable folks were with it.
I love "Lets Make Religion History".
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7th September 2011, 10:00 PM
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Re: The Gruen Transfer
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The ads were really good, and appreciated by the audience and the panel. Thanks to LB for the link.
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7th September 2011, 10:05 PM
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We had a thread recently about having a photography business depicting the word devil in it's name.
I guess the answer lies there. http://www.atheistfoundation.org.au/...ad.php?t=11353
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#6
8th September 2011, 03:35 AM
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Re: The Gruen Transfer
I thought the ads were really well done! Brought a tear to my eye.
 I guess the other agencies were worried about pissing off their existing clients. 
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8th September 2011, 06:08 AM
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Re: The Gruen Transfer
Loved both adds. I wanted to imediately start raising money to air both.
The refusal of other companies? They are probably similar to a lot of my and likely others friends, don't have religious views but just dont want to think about it or challenge themselves.
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8th September 2011, 06:20 AM
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Re: The Gruen Transfer
It would be interesting to know if TV stations would be reluctant to air adds such as these ones. If ad agencies were reluctant to make such ads then would TV stations refuse to screen them because they may think they would be poorly received by the religious community and could result in other companies withdrawing their advertising for that reason.
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8th September 2011, 07:12 AM
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Remember the storm over the safe sex billboards? I personally would contribute to airing the commercials in prime time just to give Jim wallace a heart attack.
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8th September 2011, 08:13 AM
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Re: The Gruen Transfer
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I haven't seen the episode yet, but I'll watch it tonight. I suspect that a lot of it comes about because of the whole "free pass" that is given to religion in so many areas. You can often get away with criticising someone about many of their ideas, until it comes to the sky daddy. James
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