Drive-by Graphics and Freedom of Speech

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Inflatable dinosaurs, Santa Clauses and King Kings are familiar to every Los Angeles driver. Are they monuments to the capital of car culture - or awful examples of "visual blight?" What about those building-size super-graphics showing up all over town? Are they public art - or public nuisances? As it meets - virtually in the shadow of the Hollywood sign - the LA City Council is hearing from both sides of an increasingly heated debate between prohibition and preservation.
Inflatable dinosaurs, Santa Clauses and King Kings are familiar to every Los Angeles driver. Are they monuments to the capital of car culture - or awful examples of "visual blight?" What about those building-size super-graphics showing up all over town? Are they public art - or public nuisances? As it meets - virtually in the shadow of the Hollywood sign - the LA City Council is hearing from both sides of an increasingly heated debate between prohibition and preservation.

Credits

Host:

Warren Olney

Producer:

Frances Anderton