Next time you see the Comcast Slowski turtles or Shaq selling cable services or that gold fish flopping on the floor in the asthma ads or the gazillion of Smokey the Bear ads or hear an adopt a foster child/shelter pet ad or hear about how great hands on CPR is or how wreckless teenage drivers need to change their ways or ANY "PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT" starring BARACK or MICHELLE OBAMA, you have the opportunity to point out to your contemporaries that they are seeing something WAY MO' WORSER than the competition for the advertising dollar represented by the emergence of digital entertainment. The big bad thing you are witnessing is public service advertising REPLACING commercial advertising because THIS DAMN RECESSION IS KILLING BUSINESS! Here's a quote from the linked article below:
“If there ever was a time for non-profits and THE GOVERNMENT to release PSA materials,
this is it.”

http://advertising.suite101.com/article.cfm/television_public_service_announcements