Comments on: Don't say Twitter or Facebook on French TV, radio http://www.ojr.org/dont-say-twitter-or-facebook-on-french-tv-radio/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dont-say-twitter-or-facebook-on-french-tv-radio Focusing on the future of digital journalism Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:43:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Lance Mahoney http://www.ojr.org/dont-say-twitter-or-facebook-on-french-tv-radio/#comment-2695 Lance Mahoney Thu, 09 Jun 2011 08:55:50 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1981#comment-2695 I think rules like this are kind of ridiculous. Government officials over there in France probabaly spent months drafting and preparing this new law, and the sole purpose is to reduce the “free advertising” for Twitter and Facebook?

Those brands have moved from being a brand name to being a verb almost (like “Google it” has become).

Do they prevent anchors from using other such brand names that have become commonplace in language? Off the top of my head I can think of Band-Aids, Xerox, and Kleenex as brands that fit this bill.

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