Clyde on movie-theater ads

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This morning in The New York Times, Clyde Haberman finally gets around to complaining about all the ads you have to sit through before a movie. (You can read the column here—registration is required, but it’s free.) There’s nothing really new here, although Clyde does register the gravity of the situation (a Connecticut lawmaker calls it “one of those universal kinds of issues”) and lets readers offer possible solutions.

He writes: “Some readers suggested shouting back at the screen, something that is already being done on occasion in New York.

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