While there are ways to protect yourself on the web, no method guarantees privacy
Truth in Advertising Act gains momentum, then stalls
Lindsy Mobley [follow id=”lindsy_mobley”] Most advertisements, if not all, are Photoshopped. The advertisements that discretely land in our peripheral vision with our every turn are usually undeniably airbrushed. And yet, even knowing this, we all idolize, idealize and fantasize about…
Competitive human nature efficient tool of power
It is difficult to express the extent to which our perceptions are engineered because it is pervasive and we have no baseline against which it may be measured.
Super Bowl ads: the good and the bad
I hardly noticed what was happening while it was happening: a short “sponsor message”, a Kia advertisement, playing on my screen directly preceding the “Budweiser: Tiny Dancer” ad I was waiting to watch online. It was an ad before an…
CBS ad policy discriminates once again
In 2009 and 2010 CBS rejected dating Web site mancrunch.com’s commercial. The ad shows two men in football jerseys watching a game. The men’s hands touch in a potato chip bowl and they start making out.
Above the influence or avoiding the issues?
It’s not that I’d like being bombarded with the truth as I sit and try to let my brain be mushed by reality television, but creating a straw bully out of tobacco or marijuana isn’t only laughable but detrimental in the sense that it draws away from larger issues.