The Humane Society wants everyone to know that trapping is wrong, and they are doing so by airing a 15 second anti-trapping spot on Fox Sports Network (in December 2006). Fox even ran the ads at no charge. The U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance is urging all hunters, trappers, and anglers to voice their disapproval of the public service announcements by contacting News Corporation (Fox's parent company) and get them to take the ads off the air. This has already been tried once, to no avail.Sadly, hunting, fishing, and the like isn't quite so important to me, it simply isn't my thing. The ads being run by Fox at no charge made me wonder if Fox has a reason for doing this, despite the sportsmen who are decrying this act. In the "stupid humor" portion of my brain, I wondered if Fox wants to help out their name's sake. You know, don't trap the foxes, etc. Nevermind. I said it was stupid you know.
This is an example of how a simple 15-second PSA can make the public (and by that I mean sportsmen) really mad and no one is now doing anyone any service. If the sportsmen need something to put out its misery, they should do the entire world a favor and aim at another one of New Corporation's businesses instead. That's right...MySpace.
1. This is not a public service announcement, it is a free political advertisement for a movement that wants to eliminate trapping, hunting and all other forms of animal use.
Posted at 3:12PM on Jan 10th 2007 by fil