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  2. From: camerons@NAD.3Com.COM (Cameron Spitzer)
  3. Newsgroups: misc.consumers
  4. Subject: Re: Seeking info: VCR Voice Remote
  5. Keywords: infomercial, program length commercial, FCC
  6. Message-ID: <1469@bridge2.NSD.3Com.COM>
  7. Date: 26 Jan 93 18:53:01 GMT
  8. References: <1993Jan25.214932.23859@berlioz.nsc.com>
  9. Sender: news@bridge2.NSD.3Com.COM
  10. Reply-To: cls@truffula.sj.ca.us
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  12. Nntp-Posting-Host: gilligan.nad.3com.com
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  14. In article 23859@berlioz.nsc.com, mds@condor () writes:
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  16. >I recently saw one of those "infomercials"
  17.  
  18. Who renamed these things?  When the FCC was deregulating and
  19. the public interest groups were fighting it, the term was
  20. "program length commercial."  The new term suggests that
  21. these programs are informative, and that's misleading.
  22.  
  23. If you feel that such corporate attacks attacks on language
  24. are insignificant, better go back and read _1984_ again.
  25.  
  26. Cameron
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