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	I could see individual works fitting the trope if those works contain (or are interrupted by) advertising. That would exclude most books, encyclopaedias, videocassettes, videodiscs and similarly-uninterrupted media, but include newspapers, magazines, radio, TV, web. An encyclopaedia watering down its history coverage for fear that parochial schools won't buy the volumes if they explicitly tell the blunt truth about the Church burning people alive at the stake over the years isn't "Think of the Advertisers!" but "Think of the Subscribers!" (or distributors, or whatever middleman). A publication like Consumer Reports (which subverts the trope by deliberately not accepting advertising) ~~would~~ also be outside this, as would the "Comics Code" or the MPAA ratings (which affect distribution, not advertising). Same with Nintendo and their stranglehold on cartridges. PBS might fit if the threat is from underwriters as indirect advertisers ("production or local acquisition of this programme made possible by X, makers of Y") but threats to funding from other, non-advertising sources (like real-world governments cutting funds for public broadcasting, or student government cutting funding to campus newspapers) is not this trope.		I could see individual works fitting the trope if those works contain (or are interrupted by) advertising. That would exclude most books, encyclopaedias, videocassettes, videodiscs and similarly-uninterrupted media, but include newspapers, magazines, radio, TV, web. An encyclopaedia watering down its history coverage for fear that parochial schools won't buy the volumes if they explicitly tell the blunt truth about the Church burning people alive at the stake over the years isn't "Think of the Advertisers!" but "Think of the Subscribers!" (or distributors, or whatever middleman). A publication like Consumer Reports (which subverts the trope by deliberately not accepting advertising) could also be outside this, as would the "Comics Code" or the MPAA ratings (which affect distribution, not advertising). Same with Nintendo and their stranglehold on cartridges. PBS might fit if the threat is from underwriters as indirect advertisers ("production or local acquisition of this programme made possible by X, makers of Y") but threats to funding from other, non-advertising sources (like real-world governments cutting funds for public broadcasting, or student government cutting funding to campus newspapers) is not this trope.