Earl Killian

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• anonemouse commented on Chefs in a city under siege
  "I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted. Now, if I only knew which half" --John Wanamaker. What evidence we have seen suggests advertisers don't demand a say in content - they merely withhold their ads from appearing with content they disapprove of. Perfectly legal, no collusion... but it scares the shit out of the American TV networks, at the very least....
• gmuir77 commented on Chefs in a city under siege
  I share your doubts. I think that good salesmen are real, we can verify this. Someone can sell an icemaker to an Eskimo, we see it happen. But in that very example, we know the customer's been flimflammed. So I think ad-men are very effective at selling the idea of advertising. But the nature of the beast is that it's very hard to get accurate metrics. I would venture to say that it's only marginally more scientific than sacrificing to gain the favor of the gods. Things went your way? The sacrifice worked. Things went against you? They weren't happy...
• scentofviolets commented on Chefs in a city under siege
  What evidence we have seen suggests advertisers don't demand a say in content - they merely withhold their ads from appearing with content they disapprove of. Perfectly legal, no collusion... Is it illegal for advertisers to demand a say in content? Not that I'm aware of. The other part here is that your hapless newspaper editor has to actually receive some feedback on the offending content, right? All the advertisers have to do then is to say, for example, they won't make any donations if the paper gives any column inches to any story or editorial that even mentions the...
• george.herbert commented on Chefs in a city under siege
  ScentOfViolets wrote... (much more, then) One. More. Time. I don't have to do any homework to justify not going to war. It's on people who want to start a war to do their homework and then present it to the public in an intelligible and honest fashion. That this even needs to be said out loud is . . . outrageous. And not in the way Aquaman says it. You're setting up an inaccurate strawman for what you think I'm criticizing. I'm fine with people who (at any point, then or now) believe / believed that the evidence was not...
• ray commented on Chefs in a city under siege
  sometimes I'm surprised at how much attention is paid to our (mine, yep I'm a Usaien) politics. Unfortunately most of us don't think about the world when we go to the ballot box. In-fact, like Evolution, some don't believe the world outside planet USA even exists. However, as most people watched our political shit storm from outside. We, unfortunately, were in the epicenter. From our prospective the difference between the two candidates looked more divisive. For instance, 17 of Mitt Romney's 25 international advisers came from George Bushs' old team of Neo-cons the same group that gave us Iraq and...