I never thought about it until I was in Europe and saw an add for a bicycle on TV. Ever seen an add for a bicycle on TV in the USA? I don’t think so. They don’t even exist here! I work at a major broadcast network, and 1/3 of the adds we get in are selling cars & trucks. The rest are mostly drugs, computers, lawn-care/weed killer – or anything else that depends on the free-flow of cheap oil in the US. Meanwhile in the EU the networks are now airing publicly funded bicycle promotion adds.

People are brainwashed by a lifetime of loud car adds.

According to the A.C. Nielsen Co., the average American watches more than 4 hours of TV each day (or 28 hours/week, or 2 months of nonstop TV-watching per year). In a 65-year life, that person will have spent 9 years glued to the tube.

Percentage of households that possess at least one television: 99
Number of hours per day that TV is on in an average U.S. home: 6 hours, 47 minutes

Number of 30-second TV commercials seen in a year by an average child: 20,000
Number of TV commercials seen by the average person by age 65: 2 million
Percentage of survey participants (1993) who said that TV commercials
aimed at children make them too materialistic: 92
Rank of food products/fast-food restaurants among TV advertisements to kids: 1
Total spending by 100 leading TV advertisers in 1993: $15 billion

Acho que o sic é para “Lei Seca”, que não é seca, não proíbe ninguém de beber, mas apenas de dirigir sob influência das bebidas alcoólicas (ou substâncias que alteram o estado de consciência). A alcunha da lei é forjada para contestá-la. E a dupla carros e bebidas manda muito na mídia.

No blog dele, a biografia diz:

“Bruno Ribeiro é crítico de música e cronista do jornal Correio Popular. Nas horas vagas tenta a sorte como letrista de samba.”

Você foi irônico, e o “sic” era para o “especialista”?