{"id":803,"date":"2005-09-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-04T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/the-pornification-of-advertising\/"},"modified":"2006-04-27T15:12:26","modified_gmt":"2006-04-27T21:12:26","slug":"the-pornification-of-advertising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/the-pornification-of-advertising\/","title":{"rendered":"the pornification of advertising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"alibi . september 1 - 7, 2005\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alibi.com\/editorial\/section_display.php?di=2005-09-01&amp;scn=film#12610\">alibi . september 1 &#8211; 7, 2005<\/a><br \/>\nAd Nauseum<br \/>\nBK loves BJ?<br \/>\nBy Devin D. O&#8217;Leary<\/p>\n<p>For the last month or so, I&#8211;and most of America by extension&#8211;have been subjected to Burger King&#8217;s ubiquitous ad campaign for &#8220;chicken fries.&#8221; Frightening inedibility of the alleged &#8220;food&#8221; product aside, <strong>the television commercials have crossed new boundaries of idiocy and raunch<\/strong> and are&#8211;I believe&#8211;contributing to the wholesale degeneration of American society as surely as the vomitoriums and coliseums of ancient Rome contributed to that once great empire&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>Did Devin O&#8217;Leary just turn 30 or have a kid? How else to understand his sudden concern about <strong>the pornification of advertising<\/strong>. Devin, whatever you do, don&#8217;t look at the rest of the Alibi!<\/p>\n<p>Devin&#8217;s still young enough to imagine the slick young man putting one over on the out-of-it oldsters who head the ad agency. Yeah, right, Devin. Those old guys grew up to the Who singing &#8220;I hope I die before I get old.&#8221; They just didn&#8217;t get their wish.<\/p>\n<p>But, perhaps Devin was actually born yesterday, if he doesn&#8217;t realize Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll has been about sex for 50+ years &#8212; your grandparents felt each other up to &#8220;Great Balls O&#8217; Fire!&#8221; And the saying that &#8220;sex sells&#8221; has been around for at least 40 years; time to read &#8220;The Hidden Persuaders&#8221; by Vance Packard (so tame by today&#8217;s fallen standard). What is rock or adversing but the effort to get into your pants?<\/p>\n<p>I hope an actual journalist will look into the advertising agency behind BK&#8217;s coq roq, the earlier Singing Cowboy (&#8220;<a title=\"mjh's Blog: You Are What You Eat\" href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/000751.htm\">and the breasts that grow on trees!<\/a>&#8220;) and, more than likely, Carl Jr&#8217;s Paris Hilton soft-core soak. It&#8217;s no longer about the meat that satisfies a conventional hunger. If that bothers you, get a job at Crosswinds. <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"mjh's Blog: You Are What You Eat\" href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/000751.htm\">mjh&#8217;s Blog: You Are What You Eat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Am I the only one disturbed by the Burger King Singing Cowboy commercial? &#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>alibi . september 1 &#8211; 7, 2005 Ad Nauseum BK loves BJ? By Devin D. O&#8217;Leary For the last month or so, I&#8211;and most of America by extension&#8211;have been subjected to Burger King&#8217;s ubiquitous ad campaign for &#8220;chicken fries.&#8221; Frightening inedibility of the alleged &#8220;food&#8221; product aside, the television commercials have crossed new boundaries of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/the-pornification-of-advertising\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">the pornification of advertising<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}