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By *inaTitz OP TV/TS 47 weeks ago
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I watch a fair bit of ITV4 and Yesterday.
Does anyone else find the sheer number of charity adverts showing harrowing scenes of suffering a bit relentless?
I think we'd all like to help out, but with all the different causes, it's impossible to support them all.  |
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By (user no longer on site) 47 weeks ago
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"I watch a fair bit of ITV4 and Yesterday.
Does anyone else find the sheer number of charity adverts showing harrowing scenes of suffering a bit relentless?
I think we'd all like to help out, but with all the different causes, it's impossible to support them all. "
They reflect the times we live in.
13 years of austerity. |
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By (user no longer on site) 47 weeks ago
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Hundreds of charities fighting for scraps of what little people can afford to donate.
The ones really struggling are those that can’t afford to advertise. I know first hand, as my family have recently founded a charity of our own. |
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By (user no longer on site) 47 weeks ago
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Absolutely agree. If I’m ever watching normal tv I pause when the ads start and fast forward through them 
Thing is, we know the world is suffering. We don’t need to take it on board every 15 minutes. We don’t need a guilt trip to make us pay £2 a month to provide drinking water to people in Africa or £3 a month to help the RSPCA save more cats. We know the kid with the eye problem can be saved with £1 a month. We don’t have the capacity to sponsor a girl on the other side of the planet for £5 a month and we know about flood and fire damage. We know £19 will give a homeless person a Christmas dinner.
You know why we don’t? Because you can’t fix them all. You could probably sign up to every single charity ask on one set of adverts in any given programme and then what? You’ve fed one person a Christmas dinner, you’ve helped one child get eye medicine. You’ve saved a dog or helped someone get water. What about all the rest? When do you stop?
We’re all struggling financially, why are we the ones being targeted to give money we can’t really afford? Why aren’t they targeting the millionaires and billionaires? Or the companies who make profits of more zeroes than we’d ever see? Why should we contribute to charity bosses driving around in Mercedes and going on 5* holidays because they think their salary should trump the charity money actually going to the cause?
Turn the ads off. Save your sanity |
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"Hundreds of charities fighting for scraps of what little people can afford to donate.
The ones really struggling are those that can’t afford to advertise. I know first hand, as my family have recently founded a charity of our own. "
Yeah. Very true.
Word of mouth and trying to put out a quality "product" that people might want to contribute to, on top of the work that continues to happen behind the scenes. |
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They are relentless. If you watch year after year some show the same footage with the same narrator saying the same words. While I understand that adverts cost money this makes me question whether the donations are achieving anything if nothing has changed and if the money is getting to where it's needed.
I decided some time back to support a couple of chosen causes because I simply can't donate to them all |
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"I watch a fair bit of ITV4 and Yesterday.
Does anyone else find the sheer number of charity adverts showing harrowing scenes of suffering a bit relentless?
I think we'd all like to help out, but with all the different causes, it's impossible to support them all. "
I hate adverts with a burning passion - I finally caved to Google’s demands and bought the premium package for Youtube. Is this selfish of me? Perhaps. But it keeps me sane(ish). |
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I'm fed up with charity adverts mostly helping out foreign countries. I think to myself why are there governments not looking after them. Charity begins at home our government should be doing more for our starving kid and homeless. I think most of us are struggling in some form. I should of retired 3yrs ago but I can't afford to so I donate to some UK charities mostly animal one |
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By (user no longer on site) 47 weeks ago
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I have not owned a TV for over 10 years, and mostly because adverts are so invasive. They are designed to make you feel shit so you spend money, charity or Marks and Spencer. They make you feel not good enough. It's the messenge at the heart of consumerism.
Giving a bit to charity in our economic climate is like putting a band aid on a burst artery. There are people who can really help but they don't. |
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