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Though we understand and appreciate the impulse behind the pragmatism at work in most PSAs, we feel that this is also a dying medium. Make all you annoying points digitally instead of wasting money and time on television. Besides, we only appreciate PSAs when they are horribly bad, like those in Regretful Morning’s listicle of [...]

In the ongoing saga of the latest plague to hit roads and highways the world over, people who can’t keep themselves from texting on their cell phones while at the wheel are killing themselves and others. Maybe we should start organizing Texters Anonymous meetings for them? Whatever has to be done about it, texting and [...]

Whereas we recently praised a listicle of anti-smoking advertisements, we’re generally pretty skeptical about anti-porn messages. More often than not they seem motivated by an even more harmful anti-sex agenda rather than actual concern for the inequities and injustices of the pornography industry and predatory Internet users. That’s why we invite you to laugh at [...]

Admittedly, anti-drug PSAs are something of a balancing act. Writers have to use the lingo, slang and style of the kids they’re appealing to while voicing the messages and concerns of the adults who are paying them. This is how we end up with some seriously awful appeals to children that tend to do little [...]