Advertising diatribe

[goldenshrine@juno.com]

Here, here. 
Very well said, Anita.

Van
On Fri, 14 May 1999 10:42:29 -0400 (EDT) "Anita Kilgour"
<akilgour@thinkage.on.ca> writes:
><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
>
>

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