You love facts you'll appeciate these ones:
Einstein did not say what you wrote. This is what he actually said: "So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore." It was from a letter written toward the end of his life to Hans Muehsam, around 1954.
Not quite the same thing as what you said.
Here are some more facts:
This is an advertising site. This site exists to critique ads. We like to snark about them. it's called humor.
Here's another fact which you seemed to overlook when you got on your soap box:
I said I liked the damn ad.
Here's one more fact: We removed your link. If you want to place a banner ad on this site for A Well Fed World, we have very reasonable rates. otherwise, stick to the context which is the ads, and how effective they are.
Thanks.
As long as other artists come along, it doesn't matter. It's the same in the advertising industry. We mostly work 60 hours or more a week, nights and weekends, for the first half of our career we are underpaid, and all the while we create content, I.P, for someone else to get rich off of. We gripe, we complain, some of us quit the business, but as long as the line of eager young pups wanting to break in the business is still long, no one cares.
The real question we should be asking is when will the content creators (music, film, movies, books, advertising, journalism, photography) band together to say no mas? We have a bunch of tribes right now wanting to do so, but for their own agenda and purpose, and that doesn't help the situation, it only creates a disunity.
As for Slate...here's the thing, and I speak about this from the POV of having had a journalist for a father: Journalists do not care about the industry being profitable. They don't care about diminished quality of content. If they have a pay check and they write to the media outlet's specific editorial POV then all is well. Sad but true. Journalism is rare these days. Consider Bob Woodward, the man who was hailed as hero during Watergate, now considered "old and senile" because he dared write a critical book about Dear Leader.
But that's how things change. Once upon a time musicians would have rather eaten dirt than license their music to a TV commercial. Now, it's how many make their living. Some are excited to have Doritos as a sponsor at SXSW . They are all on brand.
But Slate doesn't care about that. As you said, they are partnered with Future Tense, and this is the future as they see it. Content creators are subsistence wage earners at best, and near slaves at worst, while tech companies relying heavily on tax breaks and constant investments to stay afloat look like the heroes.
Whenever musicians mention this, they're told to shut up and dance. Whenever Adland mentions it, we're told we are paid shills. Good times, right?
Of course it's calculating. Any person, mother or otherwise, who still has respect for this company and its owners should really wake up already.
The apology will most likely read one of two ways. Either with a qualifier like this:
"I'm sorry if you were offended at my unauthorized and illegal use of your song."
Or they'll turn it into a further sales pitch like this:
"As a woman and so-called engineering student from a prestigious school, I never dreamed our little angel investor-backed mom and pop store that creates such amazing products called Goldieblox, for little girls who may one day become engineers would ever make it to the Super Bowl, despite raising a butt load of money on Kickstarter, and beating out real mom and pop stores in a small business competition. Goldieblox is honored to have such a successful business already. That's why it pains us to take time away from our constant PR barrage to do this, but so be it.
Goldieblox, and the founders of such amazing narrative play engineering toys for girls are very sorry if they did anything wrong to the Beastie Boys. We hope we can move past this so we can get back to our PR barrage for Goldieblox, because Goldieblox."
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