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We all know that newspapers who support the government get “institutional support”. IE, the politicians pay for large useless adverts with taxpayers money in exchange for favourable coverage.

Changing the subject, our local newspaper La Voz de Almería is part of Grupo Prisa, which is a large PSOE orientated media group which includes such treasures as El País newspaper or Cadena 40. I have spoken before of how La Voz is similar to Pravda, in as much as its pretty much a state run mouthpiece which occasionally hints at deeper truths. La Voz usually has large government ads in it.

Anyway, I just love this advert which ran last week on the back page of La Voz.

Yup – the Junta is paying for an advert in a newspaper, telling us to read newspapers (and, I suppose, pay 1€ a day for it).

And the ad, no doubt, will only appear in “friendly” papers. After all, the PSOE needs some media friends to support their daft ideas on the future economy of Spain…..

Best of all, it’s completly legal!

Just spotted this advert on google adwords:

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Any ideas what it means?

North Korea, the “hermit kingdom” known for being the worlds only Communist dynasty, bad hairstyles and erratic nuclear weapons, has launched a new beer which seems to be about the first -and only- advert for a product on their TV network.

Don’t know about you, but it’s making me want to go tee-total. At least they don’t know how to pour it.

The BBC says:

Billed as the “Pride of Pyongyang”, the advert promises drinkers that the beer will help ease stress.

“It represents the new look of Pyongyang,” the two-and-a-half minute advert says. “It will be a familiar part of our lives.”

Taedonggang Beer Factory has been making the brew since buying a British brewery and shipping it lock, stock and barrel from the UK in 2002.

The beer has been occasionally available in South Korea and is said to be of high quality.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, said to have a fondness for fine wines and brandy, has taken a personal interest in the brewery.

“Watching good quality beer coming out in an uninterrupted flow for a long while, he noted with great pleasure that it has now become possible to supply more fresh beer to people in all seasons,” North Korea’s state news agency, KCNA, said after he visited the brewery in 2002.