Blog 20 (B)- response to Drew Farrar

This is in response to Drew's blog about public service announcements.
In his blog Drew poses the question: "Do you think public service announcements are beneficial? Why or Why not? "

I think that PSAs are beneficial as far as helping to get an important message out that people might not be aware of other wise. America is a country that love's television, what better way to get a message out than through that medium? I can't see a PSA, no matter what the topic, having a negative impact on the subject. At least one of the millions of people who may watch it, may realize that whatever it may be, as in Drew's blog about Global Warming, is a serious issue and that one commercial may change someone's views and make them be more proactive towards the issue.

That one person that it reached, is now one less person who is contributing to global warming, and one more person who can join the fight against global warming.

Blog 19 (A)

This blog has a couple points I'd like to make, it is about the sport of Soccer (Futbol) and why it has never caught on to the extent that it has worldwide.

I believe that it is due to the fact that soccer plays to 45 minute running halves with no stoppage until half/end of the game. Its not the constant playing that turns people away from soccer, most people when they actually sit and watch a game or go to a game have a good time, I think the reason it is not popular is because due to the running time, there is less time for advertising.

In other countries, advertising is done on the players jerseys and around the perimeter of the pitch(field).

Do you think that soccer hasn't become popular in America because companies don't want to put money into a sport that doesn't really give them a large advertising advantage over competitors?