This ad is all over the magazines and billboards at the moment. Is it my imagination, or does it say something about the public mood? I mean, I can just about imagine a creative type plugging a ballet company by asking "Who says nothing good ever came out of Siberia?" (Lynne Truss would probably argue that it tells us a lot about the use and abuse of question marks, but that's another issue all together.)
The new channel looks interesting, anyway.
MORE Callimachus chips in:
Curious that the versions of the ads that I've seen online show Susan Sarandon and Spike Lee, two stars who don't seem to figure in the programs being shown, but whose known expressions of political opinion would suit the British intellectual class's 230-year history of contempt for the run-of-the-mill American.
