CNN is showing an ad for "ZShield" right now.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

It looks like a regular plastic face shield, except the shield pivots down instead of up.

Showing lots of smiling actors without masks covering their mouths and noses.

Oh, well. I guess it's better than nothing, but I'm almost as disappointed in CNN advertising that product as when they show pro-Trump ads.

Liberal media, my ass.

[SamKnause]

1. I have seen that ad many times.

Would be great with the addition of a mask.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

6. Agreed.

Aerosols certainly have more opportunities to spread with just that face shield alone.

Don't understand how it tilting down will be helpful when eating at a restaurant, which the commercial showed without any follow-through. Serves also as a plastic napkin, apparently. LOL.

[brooklynite]

2. So CNN shouldn't run political ads for people you don't like?

How would you feel if they didn't run Bernie Sanders ads? Or Green Party ads (assuming they had them)?

I, for one, would prefer that the media not play favorites when it comes to advertising.

[usedtobedemgurl]

16. It was not a political ad...

There is nothing political about a mask, unless you try to make it so. I do not think most people here would care if a mask were sold. In fact, they might encourage it. As quoted elsewhere, this shield is not even better than nothing. It may just funnel the aerosol into your face and nose. Nothing political about people not wanting others to get sick.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

17. I expressed disappointment in their pro-Trump ads too.

I think that's what bothered him.

[usedtobedemgurl]

18. Guess so, but you did not say they should not be shown. Nt

[Buckeye_Democrat]

19. True.

Being disappointed doesn't mean I'm pushing for a ban of those ads at all.

[demmiblue]

20. Yeah, what a strange response.

Masks aren't political (unless you are Trump, et al.),

[usedtobedemgurl]

21. Exactly!! Nt

[TwilightZone]

23. What does the ad have to do with politics?

It seems the only one injecting politics into the context is you.

[dewsgirl]

3. I read about those this morning, they are nowhere near

the protection a mask is.

[Coleman]

4. I saw a write-up about it somewhere

It said that it wasn't even better than nothing. It acts like a funnel.

[wcmagumba]

5. I've seen those, don't look too good...

seems as if it focuses your breath and whatever is in it upwards for a wider dispersal in a room also would let floating particles in from above (where the concentration might be higher) and of course the no mask wearing is a total loser to me...

[Buckeye_Democrat]

7. Good point.

Surely directs the aerosols upward instead of down toward the ground!

[maxsolomon]

8. Cable takes any ad they can get.

barrel scrapings and bottom feeders.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

11. Yeah, the focus of their business is the money.

I'm used to it, but don't like it.

[Eliot Rosewater]

12. I deleted my response, but taking trump money now is NOT the same as taking

McCain money or any prior situation...

EVERYTHING is different now.

Taking advertising dollars to promote MASS MURDERING FASCISTS is not OK.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

13. Yeah, they apparently have a different standard than me.

I'm guessing that an advertisement for an overt white supremacist group would be a line they'd never cross despite the money, but Trump is normal enough for them?

[marmar]

10. In fairness the newsroom has no control over the advertising department.

[Silent3]

14. Democratic and liberal groups buy ads on Fox

It's better they all take anyone's ads.

Also, if you're watching cable, some ads you see are inserted by your cable company, so you might be misjudging the source of the ad.

I listen to MSNBC on satellite radio fairly often. Practically all of the ads are SiriusXM sourced, the same annoying ads they run on all of their non-commercial-free channels. What really gets me is occasionally hearing ads voiced by Bill O'Reilly while listening to MSNBC.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

15. Good point.

At least their news department regularly rips into Trump, as deserved.

[hunter]

22. Television ads don't exist in my personal universe.

Life is much better without them.