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| ABC Musta Taken it up the Shorts in Ads |
| 2004-05-01 |
| The only national advertisers in NightLine’s presentation was SBC and Dodge Ram. Almost all of the advertisers were local advertisers. The program opened without the musical intro, and then a commentary from Koppel about the ’controversy swirling’ around ABC’s decision to air the naming of the dead. Typical to the current, albeit sad, state of American journalism the naming of the dead was apparently not intended as a tribute, but paraphrasing Koppel, to show that the deaths of a few has a burden for all of us. Commenting as what passes for objectivity these days, Tedro is right, however, lest any of us are taking these deaths or the presence of relatives of our fellow citizens who are still fighting lightly, as Koppel seems to imply, or as he perhaps would prefer. And you gotta imply that in order to maintain some sort of moral superiority over the rest of us idiots. That is a national journalist stock in trade. The naming of those fallen was not particularly well done because it failed miserably to state without any equivocation why all these people were willing to sacrifice their lives to uphold the ideal of liberty, inasmuch as some of us will do what we can to ensure the safety of our troops to victory over this tyranny that attacked us on 911. A point of personal privilidge: Tedro: Would it have klilled you to admit on national TV you admire the sacrifice not only of those who have died but of those who are still on the lines still dealing with the threat we all face as a nation, still willing to fight even though some loud mouths who have found themseleves at the top of the journalistic food chain believe the sacrifices have not been enough, who find it necessary to further endanger troops by opposing the mission whiole still trying to convince us they ’support the troops’? Would a little expression of love of country have permentantly ruined your liberal credentials? |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #12 HEY!! It worked..Thanks!! |
| Posted by: B 2004-05-01 2:35:02 PM |
| #11 thanks ruprecht..I thought that is what I did! I've always cut and pasted from the example below, because it never works when I use the box, but as you can see, cut and paste doesn't work for me either. Maybe it has to do with that "link" between the sets of brackets. I'm afraid to try it. I'll try rantburg. linkname |
| Posted by: B 2004-05-01 2:34:28 PM |
| #10 B, regarding html links. Normally an html link is [a href="http://www.deere.com"]link[/a] Note the double quotes. On rantburg you use a single quote. [a href='http://www.deer.com']link[/a] Also in both cases square brackets have to be angle brackets. So if I got it right your link should be: here |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2004-05-01 2:16:13 PM |
| #9 Howdy Doody's sponsor, SBC, unfortunately, has a quasi-monopoly in about 13 states regarding local phone service. Except where competing companies like Sprint and Verizon beat them to the punch for the local monopoly . States are : CA, NV, TX, OK, AR, MO, KS, IL, WI, MI, IN, OH, CT I personally am in an SBC state but in a Verizon enclave. People who have SBC local might want to consider using a non SBC cell for their home service. Remind them of Howdy's attempt to duplicate the Life magazine rib on Vietnam 35 years ago. |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-05-01 1:29:00 PM |
| #8 Heh; I actually thought the closing statement was okay ... |
| Posted by: Edward Yee 2004-05-01 12:16:53 PM |
| #7 Fred? URL cleanup aisle 3 |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-05-01 10:31:03 AM |
| #6 I pasted the html for links around my URL. I don't understand why it never works. Look..it even highlited and underlined it, but it messed up the screen anyway. I don't get it. |
| Posted by: B 2004-05-01 10:15:07 AM |
| #5 Perhaps this could explain John Deere's willingness to fund Anti-American broadcasts: From their chairman's 2003 message: http://www.deere.com/en_US/investinfo/media/pdf/reports/2004/2003chairmansmessage.pdf "Our focus continues winning new agricultural customers in Europe. Also supporting improved global sales was the shipment of 100 John Deere cotton pickers to Turkmenistan as well as new manufacturing relationships with Russia and Turkey." |
| Posted by: B 2004-05-01 9:56:06 AM |
| #4 well that certainly explains why they were willing to fund the show. |
| Posted by: B 2004-05-01 9:37:11 AM |
| #3 I failed to add John Deere advertised on the show, as well as being one of the last. So, there were three national advertisers in Okla, but only one, John Deere could have been considered a true nationwide ad. Dodge routinely advertises locally but with a local tail, and SBC is the local phone monopoly. |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-05-01 9:36:40 AM |
| #2 B, Dodge is no longer American. Neither is Chrysler. They were assimilated by Daimler-Benz. The profits all go back to Germany now and the American employees take their marching orders from their German handlers! -AR |
| Posted by: Analog Roam 2004-05-01 9:30:52 AM |
| #1 Thanks, badnov for listing the two main advertisers. Does anyone know who advertised in the DC area? I'd like to send them a note of my disgust. Dodge is pretty stupid. Lots of people "buy American" even though their cars are often inferior to foreign cars. They do so because they believe it's the right thing to do. Not anymore. I don't think the type of people who "buy American" would want to fund this type of anti-American drivel by purchasing Dodge's cars. |
| Posted by: B 2004-05-01 8:19:31 AM |