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"Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it."

Stephen Leacock

"Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission."

Fred Allen

"Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does."

Steuart H. Britt

"Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising."

John Lahr

"Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half."

John Wanamaker

"We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion."

Zelda Fitzgerald

"Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on."

Jerry Della Femina


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(THE SAD) TRUTH IN ADVERTISING

"Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled."

Noam Chomsky

"Advertising &8211; a judicious mixture of flattery and threats."

Northrop Frye

"Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need."

Will Rogers

"Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless."

Sinclair Lewis

"What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public."

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

"Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths."

Edgar A. Shoaff

"When a man throws an empty cigarette package from an automobile, he is liable to a fine of $50. When a man throws a billboard across a view, he is richly rewarded."

Pat Brown

"You can fool all the people all the time—if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough."

Joseph E. Levine


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FROM MOVIES AND TV

DVD cover for American Beauty From American Beauty  (1999)

Lester Burnham: "Brad, for 14 years I've been a whore for the advertising industry. The only way I could save myself now is if I start firebombing."

From Annie Hall  (1977)

Alvy Singer [on Pam being a Rosicrucian]: "I can't get with any religion that advertises in Popular Mechanics."

From TV's Most Censored Moments  (2002 Documentary)

David Milch: "An advertiser doesn't mind going out on a limb—if they feel that there's a constituency for the limb."

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FROM LEFT FIELD

"The ad in the paper said 'Big Sale. Last Week.' Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in."

Yakov Smirnoff

"You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X."

Dick Gregory

"Don't tell my mother I work in an advertising agency. She thinks I play piano in a whorehouse."

Jacques Seguela



 

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CATEGORY:  MEDIA, EMPIRE — 14.FEB.2015

Rating: 4 of 5 - Very good Unwelcome Guests

Terrorists Against Terror! ... Warmongers, Media, and the Charlie Hebdo Attack — Why has the corporate media put such emphasis on the attack on the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo, which killed only a tiny fraction of the number killed in the recent massacre in Nigeria, an event largely ignored by the media? What of the commercially-controlled media's claim that we need moderate Muslims to condemn the attack? Where were the calls for moderate Christians to condemn the Christian extremists whose illegal war killed over a million Iraqis? What lies behind the simplistic official narratives pushed by corporate media? Dissident BBC reporter Tony Gosling examines connections between recent terrorist events and sketches out a highly compelling picture of darker forces at work.
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GP comment:  Gosling and his interviewer occasionally go too far in their ruminations; for instance, I think the idea that financially troubled Charlie Hebdo might have murdered itself as a publicity stunt to avoid going out of business is plain stupid. The attack as a black-op bitch-slap of France for its recent non-compliance with US geopolitical strategies is a much more compelling angle. Broadly speaking, though, most of the ideas presented in the two hours are fairly on-target.

Original Show Pub Date: 24.Jan.2015 ~~ Original story title: Terrorists Against Terror! (Corporate Media Handling of The Charlie Hebdo Attack)

CATEGORY:  MEDIA — 08.FEB.2015

Rating: 3 of 5 - Good, worth a listen CounterSpin

Will FCC's New Rules Really Protect Net Neutrality? — The head of the FCC has just announced a new rule that will ostensibly protect the openness of the Internet. The approach would reclassify the internet as a public utility, like the phone system. The rules would ban paid prioritization or blocking/throttling of lawful content and services. The commision's vote is still weeks away, but questions remain. The FCC's oversight of industry to date might be described as having been "helpful"; so will this new proposal have teeth and actually maintain an even playing field on the Internet? Craig Aaron of Free Press discusses.
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GP comment:  Since the FCC is stacked with revolving-door players from industry, it's hard to imagine the regulators are just going to "do the right thing" for the public. I note that Wheeler explicitly procalimed that the new rules would protect mobile broadband users. What about home internet service? is that the loophole that will give industry the fat end of the deal?

Original Show Pub Date: 06.Feb.2015 ~~ Original story title: Craig Aaron on FCC Reclassification

CATEGORY:  MEDIA, EMPIRE, ENVIRONMENT — 10.JAN.2015

Rating: 4 of 5 - Very good Project Censored

The Most Underreported Stories of 2014 — Project Censored is out with a new addition of their annual "unreported stories" book. On the empire front, their most-underreported stories include "Top Ten US Aid Recipients All Practice Torture"; "WikiLeaks Revelations on Trans-Pacific Partnership Ignored by Corporate Media"; "Corporate Internet Providers Threaten Net Neutrality"; "Bankers Back on Wall Street Despite Major Crimes"; "The Deep State—Government Without the Consent of the Governed"; "US Media Hypocrisy in Covering Ukraine Crisis." On the environmental front, their top underreported stories include "Ocean Acidification Increasing at Unprecedented Rate"; "Lawsuit Challenges Nuclear Power Industry Immunity from Liability in Nuclear Accidents"; "Agribusiness Attempts to Discredit Scientists Who Reveal Herbicide Health Threats."
Download/listen   59:00

GP comment:  This clip includes an interview with Zara Zimbardo, who recently penned "It Is Easier to Imagine the Zombie Apocalypse Than the End of Capitalism." Catchy title, but we need to be more clever in attacking capitalism. It must be continually distinguished from "free enterprise" and "entrepreneurship" and "effort/reward." Capitalism is not about those things; it means "money rules," and no one but the 1% of the 1% really want that.

Original Show Pub Date: 06.Jan.2015

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