Time Warner to Ban Certain Kinds of Gun Ads

No semi-automatic weapons and no pointing guns at people

Just weeks after the mass shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Time Warner Cable has initiated a company-wide ban on certain gun ads.

"We no longer accept ads showing semi-automatic weapons and guns pointed at people," Time Warner Cable said in a statement. "We stand by this policy. If it's essential to a business owner to show this kind of imagery in their commercials, there are other advertising options in the marketplace."

Comments

[Jim Tom]

Tomorrow they'll announce a ban on shows with gratuitis violence, right?

[Live Free or Diet]

Heh! Not likely.

[Live Free or Diet]

"We no longer accept ads showing semi-automatic weapons and guns pointed at people,"

By the construction of the sentence, they will show "semi-automatic weapons" and "guns" unless "pointed at people." I don't think that's what they mean, or else the term "guns" would cover the term "semi-automatic weapons," right?
(Sigh.)
Anybody else think people in the communications business ought to be able to communicate?