It Pays to Advertise
Here's a scary thought. In an 1887 sermon the Right Reverend Henry Ward Beecher proclaimed, "The advertisements of a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are." He's probably right. One can probably learn more about our culture today from the TV ads than from the bloviated punditry on the yammer shows. Take this commercial for Ikea for instance: a woman runs out of an Ikea outlet, her arms loaded with purchases, screeching annoyingly and repeatedly at her husband to "start the car, start the car." It turns out there's a sale on, but she's convinced she's ripping them off. What's the message this sends to our kids about who we are?
posted by John M Crowther @ 7:33 AM
2 Comments:
I agree John. We are being influenced and not in a good way. We have a Standards Association here but it's a toothless tiger in a society that increasingly doesn't know (or doesn't remember) what's right.
Gotta love that Bear!
No wonder those of us who try to live with honor and courtesy are called dinosaurs. Love these two guys, John C.
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