Mass Media Commercials

[Southern_Gent]

No doubt where ever you are, you've heard or seen a large number of commercials endorsed by various companies, promoting Valentines day. Given the lengthy commute I have to get to work, I've noticed a large volume of such ads on the radio, mostly from jewelry stores. The gist of the ads are trying to encourage men to show the woman in his life how much he cares, mainly by purchasing a high-priced piece of jewelry. Some ads go so far as to try and convince the listener that they're not worthy of their woman's affection if they don't buy her jewelry.

Given such types of ads, I've often wondered if this form of mass media hype is what's driving the materialism that runs rampant in our society today.

[madmarine]

Hey, lets get the aclu involved here. I see a real problem with all this advertising. All i have seen is that men are supposed to be buying all this stuff to give to women. Where is the concept of equality here. Why isn't there equal advertising for the women to but all this materielistic garbage for men?????

Just a thought to stir up the pot here

[kawalekm]

Well, the tenth anniversary is the "steel" anniversary. *On our tenth, my wife got a brand NEW steel cutlery set while I only got a USED M1 Garand. *That was so unfair.

By the way SG, I watched a beauty cream commerical where the woman was thinking to herself that if she doesn't stay beautiful ["using this cream"] than my husband won't love me anymore. *I pointed this commercial out to my wife to ask her to never ever buy this beauty cream. *I thought that add was lower than low.
Michael

[Southern_Gent]

Those are the types of commercials I'm talking about. The ones that annoy me the most are those that trash family morals in light of a particular product.

[WileyCoyote]

One of my employees was saying just Monday that he had to change the channel before his young son saw the ad for "warming KY jelly" and said that he wanted to get it for his Mom!
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I have always said that jewelry is for the unimaginative. I hate to receive dead (cut stemmed) flowers of any type - gimme something I can plant and enjoy for a long time! And chocolate - well, better leave that alone; I've lost my craving and most of the "romantic" chocolate is stuffed full of nasty stuff I wouldn't want to eat anyway. We like to treat each other to romantic dinners, or silly gifts like the red silk underwear with the HUGE Hershey's Kiss (guess where!) I bought him for tomorrow! We don't usually celebrate artificial holidays anyway... but if we do, creativity and affectionate silliness are key.

I find most commercials to be insulting to the intellect, as I do most TV shows....

[tufhelp]

After over 28 years in the television industry, I can attest to this creedo being true in the eyes of the advertisers.

The advertising ethic:

"Truth is that what which sells..."

[edward_4576]

Here's a tie in with what the goberment is doing. Sending us each "tax refunds" to help bolster the economy.

Damn it all you people... where's your American spirit huh? Don't you realize it was OUR fault that this year has startedd so badly, why with the Christmas season being as pathetic as it was it's a wonder we all aren't all on welfare.... shame on us bad consumers for not believeing everything the tell us......


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