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Originally posted by timewarrior2001
And you need to stop reading between the freakin lines at words thast simply just are not there.
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The meaning of the advert is the whole point of contention and the proper, legally appointed body is now looking in to it. I will be happy to be proven wrong in my interpretation, and I hope you will be happy if you are proven wrong.
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I also doubt highly that you are more professional than the people designing this advertisement. therefor you are condemning NTL before ALL facts are made clear.
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I am a fully qualified journalist with three years experience at a regional newspaper and a further 4-and-a-half years experience of Corporate Communications at an international hotel company. I am perfectly professional
and experienced enough to come to my own conclusions, thank you. I am not, however, qualified to condemn, and
you are not qualified to exonerate. Those with the jobs at the ASA are, and they will decide.
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As for the text I have made bold.
what gives you the right to decide this warranted reporting?
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I don't have that right, and neither do you. The ASA has that right. I have the right, granted me by UK law, to ask the ASA to decide. That is what I have done. If ntl get a fine, it will be because the ASA decide they have committed an offence, not because I have judged and condemned ntl.
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Why did you need to interfere and not simply let the relevant people investigate it anyway?
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The relevant people
areinvestigating it. I don't understand your point here. In what way am I 'interfering'?
Had BT made the same advertisement would you have done the same? as an ntl customer I feel a sense of affinity with the company and its practices that is stronger than that which I have for those with whom I have no such relationship. Every brand desires a relationship with its customers ... that's what builds brand loyalty. I would imagine that BT, about which I care far less, would have had to do something far more heinous before I would complain about them.
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Are you going to stop here, or are you going to get a lynch mob arranged for every slight mistake made by EVERY company?
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Your attempt to make this issue seem trivial by drawing ridiculously extreme conclusions is transparent and quite silly. I have tried to keep my comments on this subject confined to the narrow legal issue of whether ntl have committed an offence or not. I hope you can try to do the same.
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Then why are you victimising NTL, that sadly is what this whole episode does amount to.
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That is so plainly not my intent to anyone who has actually read my posts, that I see no point responding to you on this.
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I have a passionate dislike for people that insist on "interfereing" yes my choice of word,
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Great, someone who would rather walk on by than actually be bothered whether what they're seeing is acceptable or not. How community spirited of you.
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but it seems to me they just coudnt wait to get one over on NTL.
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Again, I am not going to wear out my keyboard any further re-stating my position on this.
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Let it be noted, None of the people reporting incidents to the ASA in relation to this advertisement speak for neither myself nor my family I/we can not and will not condone such actions.
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Firstly, ntl's action is offensive to
me. With the greatest respect to your family, this is nothing to do with them.
Secondly, who do you think you are that you need to 'condone' my action in using a legitimate, legal process for its correctly intended use?