{"id":409,"date":"2006-08-29T11:57:16","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T09:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=409"},"modified":"2006-11-20T18:53:18","modified_gmt":"2006-11-20T16:53:18","slug":"silent-french-battles-in-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=409","title":{"rendered":"silent french battles in berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img id=\"image408\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2006\/08\/sliphaus.jpg\" alt=\"sliphaus.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:90%; text-align:center;\">mysterious graffiti as seen from the Berlin <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/S-Bahn\">S-Bahn<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The VVR berek &#8211; a subsidiary company of the Berlin public transport company BVG which is in charge for selling advertisement spaces in Berlin public transport is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vvr-berek.de\/de\/news\/2851.aspx\">going to be sold<\/a>. Unexpectedly&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n&#8230;not the local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wall.de\/\">Wall<\/a> got the acceptance of bid, but the parisian company JCDecaux (and the company Wall <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wall.de\/de\/company\/news\/article\/news01232.asp\">thinks<\/a> of moving to Hamburg as a kind of protest). One expects the campains to get more agressive now. In particular the art wall in the underground of Berlin Alexanderplatz <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berlinonline.de\/berliner-zeitung\/print\/berlin\/580860.html\">seems to be in danger<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image406\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2006\/08\/doppeldecker.jpg\" alt=\"doppeldecker.jpg\" \/><img id=\"image407\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2006\/08\/doppeldecker2.jpg\" alt=\"doppeldecker2.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n(first image from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/schockwellenreiter\/141443840\/\">flickr<\/a>, second from <a href=\"http:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doppeldeckerbus\">wikipedia<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>Whatsoever &#8211; I found already the old advertisment campaigns agressive enough: left image &#8211; a bus how it looked in my childhood; right image &#8211; a bus how it approximately looks now. Sometimes you can&#8217;t even look out of the window when sitting inside the bus. The images are an example for nowadays increased visual pollution with advertisement.  Plus JCDecaux knows no modesty when doing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.my-os.net\/blog\/index.php?2006\/02\/10\/266-encore-decaux\">advertisments for themselves<\/a>.<br \/>\nSo lets see.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is some protest against visual pollution, like from members of the Berlin parliament. And it seems as if a faint but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberation.fr\/page.php?Article=391550\">efficient<\/a> french <a href=\"http:\/\/fetenationaleduslip.free.fr\/\">protest<\/a> swapped over to Berlin (already before JCDecaux) &#8212; see image above. ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mysterious graffiti as seen from the Berlin S-Bahn The VVR berek &#8211; a subsidiary company of the Berlin public transport company BVG which is in charge for selling advertisement spaces in Berlin public transport is going to be sold. Unexpectedly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,4,13,15,8,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}