Advertising diatribe

[Anita Kilgour]

> There was a time in my life, not too long ago, during which I
> had no access
> to a television.  I missed a lot of hockey, sure, but I also
> missed the
> exhortations to "buy this now or your teeth will rot and fall
> out of your
> head and no one will love you and you'll die alone in a dank,
> one-room
> apartment where no one will notice for two weeks until the
> smell drifts out into the hallway."

<sigh>

Put me in the category of "I just don't get this one either" again.

TV's a way to entertain myself.  I entertain myself in a whackload of
different ways (read, knit, cross stitch, tv, movies, theatre (both passive
& active), friends, the zoo, pick something here).  If the TV isn't
entertaining, I ignore it.  I grew up with a father in marketing, so I
learned to recognize the manipulation of the ads very young and pretty much
ignore them.  (Besides the part of me that recognizes the well done ones as
well as makes fun of the ones that are just bad as well as poorly done.)

It's like any other tool. It only has as much power as you give it.  If it
fails to do what you want it to do (entertain, in my case), turn it off and
find something else.  You become a slave to something when you don't
recongize you have that option.

--
Anita