from NY Times: There are, it seems, subscribers who dislike Sports Illustrated's annual swimsuit issue. They do not want to see it and they certainly do not want it sent to them. They view the sensuous lounging of supermodels in expensive bikinis as alien to the mission of a weekly sports magazine. The anti-swimsuit-issue backlash never developed into a mass movement of anti-bikinists burning the special winter …
Rock Mag Quibbles Over Truth In Tagline
According to USA Today, The nation's largest Bible publisher, seeking to reach "spiritually intrigued 18- to 34-year-olds," has stumbled over an unexpected rock: Rolling Stone. The magazine rejected Zondervan's Bible ad just weeks before its scheduled run date, citing an unwritten policy against accepting ads containing religious messages. The ad carries the slogan: "Timeless truth. Today's language." And that …
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Public Interest Lobbyists Tilting At Windmills
from Washington Post: A Washington consumer group held a press conference yesterday urging food marketers to voluntarily quit promoting junk food to children. Center for Science in the Public Interest, which regularly weighs in on nutrition issues, outlined voluntary guidelines calling for a complete halt to promoting soda, caffeinated drinks and sugary drinks; foods largely devoid of nutrients, fruits, vegetable and …
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What’s In Your Docket?
from LA Times: Minnesota Atty. Gen. Mike Hatch sued Capital One Financial Corp.'s bank unit Thursday over the ads for its "No Hassle" credit card, which promote a supposedly fixed annual interest rate of 4.99%. Customers who miss a payment deadline or exceed their credit limit can end up with annual interest rates of as much as 27%, Hatch said at a news conference. About 40% of the card's users will be paying higher …
PETA Has Its Way With The Ronald. Chickens Don’t Exactly Celebrate.
from CNN/Money: McDonald's, the world's number one fast-food restaurant and second-largest buyer of chicken, is studying whether to switch its chicken suppliers over to the least-cruel slaughter method, the animal rights group PETA said Tuesday. Controlled-atmosphere killing, or CAK, is a USDA-approved method of slaughter that is described by animal welfare experts as "the most stress-free, humane method of killing …
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Wacky Packs Are Back
Growing up in the 1970s, I was a big fan of Topps' Wacky Packages. At the time, the term "culture jamming" had yet to be uttered, and I never thought of my collection as political in any way. I just thought it was funny and cool. In a Chicago Reader article from June, one of the underground comic strip creators behind the series, Jay Lynch, refutes my innocent kid's worldview. "They change the DNA. They teach kids …
Run Rabbit Run
from Bloomberg: In what may be another sign of consumer fatigue with political correctness, sales of furs--which plunged by a third in the 10 years ending in 1995 amid animal-rights protests--will climb about 15 percent to a record $2.1 billion this year, according to Fernandina Beach, Florida-based research firm Southwick Associates. "If you are fashion aware, you'd like to have an item with some fur on it this …
Whatever Happened To Concern Over Real Issues, Like Poverty?
from Mich News: In recent years the words …
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