>If you are stuck in traffic or on a bus in an ugly urban hellscape, is a billboard really that bad? Yes, it intrudes into a person's thought pattern with the

>If you are stuck in traffic or on a bus in an ugly urban hellscape, is a billboard really that bad? Yes, it intrudes into a person's thought pattern with the explicit goal of selling you a product/service/idea. I'd much rather stare at a wall and continue with my thought or look at a work of art (which 99.99% of ads are not, imho). > I'm sorry, they are not going to plant trees in Times Square to replace the billboards. Even in their own press photos, they are showing several billboards that are covering up even uglier buildings! So why not put up a non-distracting work of art? Have ads become the only visual expression allowed in public?