Folks,
On Nov 19, 2004, at 9:48 AM, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
On Nov 19, 2004, at 9:45 AM, Dan Minette wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Pensinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Well, I do. If you think that the beer commercials and the impotence
spots are just OK for your kids to watch, then its a mighty small step to
be bitching about this thing.
I don't know. Beer, as opposed to cigarettes can be enjoyed for its own
sake, and not as part of an addicting pattern.
Not the way it's promoted in the "feel good party on" beer commercials. It's considered a necessity in those ads. No one's having any fun at all until everyone's got a beer stuffed into his mitt. (The message, to me at least, is pretty ho-hum boring: Get drunk and be cretins just like us! -- so perhaps the advertising is having a self-nullifying effect. ;)
Absolutely alcohol can be enjoyed safely. But the commercials that advertise the product *do not* promote temperance.
I suppose the ABC promo would have been OK if it had tiny little 3-pixel-high text at the bottom that said "ABC and MNF invite you to enjoy extramarital sex, but do it responsibly."
Dave
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