I'm not much of an activist but I just sent a little email from MoveOn to some friends. I realized last night, during a drunken discussion, that most people don't understand what the proposed rule changes actually mean. Radio sucks now, it's going to suck even worse later... and clients: you think you're being held hostage by ad rates now! Just wait until you really have nowhere else to go.
As I said then and will say again... it's probably too little too late. Note in this week's AdWeek that Clear Channel (in an ad) brags that they reach 75% of consumers in one way or another.
Out of hand. Out - of - hand. I've long thought the whole celeb endorsement thing has lost its punch, is over-blown, over-used and over-drawn; I only wish the buying public would prove me right.
God help me, I hope the Hummer-driving "King" James freakin' flops when he hits the pros. Serves us all right.
This isn't about pushing the right buttons anymore; it's about pushing all the wrong things.
Talent or no, no high school kid who's done nothing more than the whup the low-hanging shorts off his fellow adolescents in a basketball game deserves this kind of canonization.
I want to see the anti-LeBron. Find me a good-hearted and grounded kid, a real kid who doesn't want to make the pros but just wants to make the game. Give him a shoe deal. And price the damn shoes reasonably enough so that his peers don't have to go out and shoot somebody or sell drugs or go without food just to get a pair.
I've gotta question? What was LeBron wearing when he first set foot on the court? On second thought, don't answer that.
YES! I love Juan... and his burro kicks ass.
One of my college roommates used to firmly believe Juan was an "agent of Satan" -- due to his amazing ability to appear and disappear at will. "Besides, how could one man and his burro pick all those coffee beans, anyway?" she'd say.
Interestingly, I recently read that in my state of Pennsylvania, highway fatalities are UP but alcohol related fatalities are DOWN.
I wouldn't say advertising has much at all to do with this. Heavy handed campaigns do little to encourage people to behave themselves; enforcement of traffic laws seems to be more effective.
Frankly, I'd rather see MADD turn their attention to teenagers driving responsibly - not just soberly. Locally, just last week, we had the sixth traffic fatality from the same small, rural high school this year. Alcohol hasn't been the problem, speed is.
Once again the line between satire and reality blurs!
Methinks I need some presecription drugs to regain a healthy sense of perspective. Especially after catching myself thinking that their mascot is kinda cute (like a tribble) and I'd like to take it home for a cuddle.
And here I got used to referring to my vocation as "plying a godless trade."
Too bad the networks didn't get the point in time to alter their upcoming line-ups. Have you seen those promos for Comedy Central that oh-so-gently mock the genre? I keep confusing them with the ones running on the Big 3, 5, whatever they are... "there's just one catch, one of them is a millionaire!"
Suddenly the sun is shining a little brighter and the birds are chirping a little louder...
ooooh! Somebody's a bit thin-skinned. Three words Rosenthal, Friday-Night-Videos.
Brilliant! Thanks for bringing me my daily dose of concept envy.
Actually, emptee-vee exemplifies the trend of cable networks everywhere... "you want the programming that made us famous? We just launched a new network and you've got to pay for it. Suckers!"
Yeah, for mere dollars a day, you can feed an American child starving for videos.
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What's even more rock-worthy? Hearing conservative pundits (continue to) whine about evil creeping liberal bias in the media.
What really made me want to retch was, I think it was either Peggy Noonan or that Coulter wench, smarmily noting on MSNBC yesterday that at least the conservative publications etc. are up front about being conservative whereas the liberals pretend to be bias-free. Actually, I think it was Peggy (probably cranky because the reviews of her new book aren't that great).
eearggh!!!
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