{"id":473,"date":"2006-10-19T06:47:36","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T11:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=473"},"modified":"2006-10-19T06:47:36","modified_gmt":"2006-10-19T11:47:36","slug":"the-baldness-of-marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2006\/10\/the-baldness-of-marketing\/","title":{"rendered":"The baldness of marketing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was poking about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/\">Slate<\/a> this morning because, well, I can and they often amuse me with their liberal slant snarkiness.  In crusing the <a class=\"pubtitle\" href=\"http:\/\/todayspictures.slate.com\/20061018\/\">Today&#8217;s Pictures<\/a>  feature (um&#8230;pretty leaves) I scrolled down to see what was on the page and got an advertisement in Flash to purchase the DVD of <a class=\"pubtitle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0082979\/\">Reds<\/a>.  It went something like this:<\/p>\n<p>Words draw on the screen the white over black: What do you think this war is about?<\/p>\n<p>Pause to let the viewer read + Fade Out<\/p>\n<p>Words draw on the screen red over black: Profits<\/p>\n<p>Pause to let the viewer read + Fade Out<\/p>\n<p>Fade in, red over black: Reds, more relevant than ever.<\/p>\n<p>Buy it on DVD blah, blah, blah.<\/p>\n<p>Truthfully, I was impressed by the assumption of stupidity of the audience by the creators of this ad: is there anyone out there who really believes that any war ever fought on a national scale has ever been about anything but money?<\/p>\n<p>True, they may not have been as baldly about money as the current U.S. cluster in Iraq is (can we say no-bid contracts?  I bet we can.) but land, the ability to tax a conquered people, access to crops for trading purposes&#8230;it&#8217;s all just money in disguise.<\/p>\n<p>It makes me wonder how, for a species that is supposedly at the top of the global food chain, we are so easily duped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was poking about Slate this morning because, well, I can and they often amuse me with their liberal slant snarkiness. In crusing the Today&#8217;s Pictures feature (um&#8230;pretty leaves) I scrolled down to see what was on the page and got an advertisement in Flash to purchase the DVD of Reds. It went something like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-thoughts","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}