from Mich News: In recent years the words …
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One More Reason Bud Needs To Move On
from USA TODAY: The Center for Science in the Public Interest has a problem with Budweiser's anti-Miller advertising. The ads in question feature beer-stealing football referees who lie to and run from police. "One can't help wonder whether the ads also have some other message in mind, namely, that breaking the law and bamboozling law enforcement efforts is a fine way to get a Bud Light," wrote CSPI's George Hacker, …
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Christopher Carfi Gets Real
Christopher Carfi has this to say about Real Networks: "How does a company that brutalizes customers, ruins desktops, forces actions, and bombards users with phony upgrade messages stay around? I personally have given up, written off, and completely exorcised Real from my online existence. The only time within recent memory that I've interacted with them in any fashion was during the 2004 debates, where I signed up …
Cattlemen Bring Beef To Supreme Court
from Indianapolis Star: A food fight broke out at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, with justices considering whether the government can force ranchers and farmers to pay for ad campaigns with catchy phrases like Beef: It's what's for dinner" and billboards featuring milk mustaches on celebrities. Farmers are challenging the multimillion-dollar beef promotion program, saying they shouldn't have to pay for ads they …
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Ethical Standards? What Ethical Standards?
from Ad Age: Once again, ad agency executives can be thankful for car dealers. According to a new national poll, the image of advertising professionals has deteriorated in the last year when it comes to honesty and ethical standards. Only 10% of those polled by the Gallup Organization rated ad people's ethics as "very high" or "high," just ahead of car salesmen, the perennial last-place finishers, who scored 9%. Ad …
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LeBron Rejected By Chinese Official
from Chicago Tribune: China has banned a Nike television commercial showing U.S. basketball star LeBron James in a battle with an animated cartoon kung fu master, saying the ad insults Chinese national dignity. The commercial, titled "Chamber of Fear," shows James in a video game-style setting defeating the kung fu master, two women in traditional Chinese attire and a pair of dragons, considered a sacred symbol in …
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Anti-Corporate (And Anti-American) Activists Go For The Jugular
The Guardian and Johnnie Moore have brought our attention to a unique, and complicated, new method to bring harm to corporations with questionable human rights and environmental records. from The Guardian: An anti-capitalist former stockbroker and the son of Sir James Goldsmith have launched an audacious attempt to halve the value of Coca-Cola's shares. The radical activist Max Keiser has joined forces with the …
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Dumb Asses Thwart Retail Sales
We reported earlier in this space that The Bad Ass Coffee Company was being given a hard time in puritanical Antioch, Il. Chicagoist and The Trib now report that the franchisee has withdrawn his lease after the Antioch Village Board passed a resolution 5-1 that read in part: "The shop's name is found to be utterly vulgar, to be highly offensive to the ordinary moral sensibilities of this community and to be repugnant …
