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On airport advertising

(Posted by adam)
airport-security.jpgVia Eric Rescorla, who has insightful comments, and Boingboing, we learn that "TSA Pilot Would Offer Ads at Airport Security Checkpoints." A few chaotic comments:
  • What authority does TSA have to sell advertising? Isn't Congress supposed to fund their operations? The advertisers will "who will provide divestiture bins, divestiture and composure tables, and metal-free bin return carts at no cost to TSA."
  • What company wants to be associated with treating the public like that? (Obvious answer: the cell phone companies, maybe the credit agencies, and used car salesmen.)
  • Will they accept advertising from the ACLU saying "Tired of intrusive searches? Please donate!"
  • How about the Libertarian party?
  • If this is acceptable, what level of advertising isn't acceptable? Can Allstate fund police cars?
Photo, less tasteless than this proposal, is a RyanAir ad, which we covered in "New airport security procedures."

[Update: new picture.]

Posted by adam on January 6, 2007 at 6:17 PM in Air Travel , Legal . You can: comment, view comments (3), see trackbacks (0) or search Technorati.

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You're about four years late on the advertising-on-cop-cars thing:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1003/p01s01-ussc.html

Posted by: Orv | January 6, 2007 7:19 PM

Orv: You make me so glad I'm not a science fiction writer. (With apologies to Vinge.)

Posted by: Adam | January 6, 2007 7:31 PM

It's already going on. At LAX the X-ray bins have had advertisements for Rolodex on the bottom for about a year. I complained about this loudly, and was told it was because they donated them.

Posted by: Brad | January 6, 2007 10:54 PM