UK Regulates "Occult" Advertising [View all]
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The media regulator has set down rules on psychic TV services that ban the casting of spells and other "occult-related practices" including satanism, and offer guidance on the correct use of chicken bones and crystal balls.
Ofcom, more used to handing down rulings relating to gaffes by Jeremy Clarkson or issues with Frankie Cocozza's behaviour on the X Factor, on Tuesday published guidance to deal with a new wave of personalised live TV adverts offering viewers psychic television services.
Rule 15.4 relates to "explicit prohibitions" on certain psychic practices.
"Television advertisements must not promote psychic practices or practices related to the occult," said Ofcom. "Psychic and occult-related practices include ouija, satanism, casting of spells, palmistry, attempts to contact the dead, divination, clairvoyance, clairaudience, the invocation of spirits or demons and exorcism".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/dec/20/media-regulator-occult-related-practices
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