Category: News/Media Rants

Those of you who read my blog regularly (yes, BOTH of you!) know that I really don’t care for lack of truth in advertising. I don’t like it when advertisers pander to people watching/listening/reading and I really don’t like it when they say things to grab my interest that aren’t actually true. Case in point – Free Credit Report dot… Read more →

Commercials are annoying as it is. Some can be mildly amusing. Others are just plain stupid. The one I saw tonight was neither. It was just freaking annoying. Chase Bank whipped out a new credit card commercial complete with pictures of joyus families whirling in circles of cash-filled bliss while businesses continued to whir smoothly along flush with funds all… Read more →

Answer: when it’s a truck. But, seriously, what is up with advertisers and cars lately? Most car commercials range from mildly annoying to downright idiotic, but lately, I’ve noticed a trend. When an ad agency pitches a concept to a client, they usually say something like, “We want to make your customers FEEL their purchase.” They speak in that stupid… Read more →

Apparently, destroying mom and pop businesses, forcing the music business to turn out sterilized versions of music and underpaying and underinsuring employees while standing between them and any chance of unionizing just wasn’t enough for America’s biggest retail chain Wal-Mart. No, now they want to have their own bank. Yeah, that’s a GREAT idea. Wal-Mart says consumers and retail banks… Read more →

Let me first say that I don’t give a rat’s ass about Victoria Secret’s “Fashion” show. I’ve never watched it and I had no intention of watching it this year. It isn’t that I’m not in favor of hot women parading around in next to nothing. Quite the contrary. But, any fashion show with women in underwear regulated by the… Read more →

I don’t think that any of us are a big fan of banner advertisements. They’re annoying. They look bad and they encourage us to do stupid crap to win you a free iPod or get a new girlfriend or whatever. Flash ads are particularly annoying not only because of the animation but because they can freeze up your browser. This… Read more →

The New York Post had an exclusive, front-page story today about the horror of…not AIDS, not poverty, not murder or mayhem, not even Tom Cruise. No, their terror is the yearbook photo of an 11-year-old girl. There are days when I marvel at the unreal shallowness of the human condition and then there are days when I seriously want to… Read more →

I learned a lot of things watching the disaster – or as Michael might put it, the “nightmare, horrifying nightmare” – that was the conclusion of the Michael Jackson child molestation trial today. Besides learning that Wolf Blitzer isn’t just a catchy name, it’s also a tempting fragrance, here are the ten things came to mind… 10. “The judge is… Read more →

There is very little that is appealing about the radio any more. Whether it is Clear Channel monopolizing and homogonizing the industry or the constant repeating of the same 100 songs over and over, commercial radio sucks. But, one aspect of radio is particularly annoying to me – morning, drive-time dj’s. This morning, I read the earth-shattering news that Sam… Read more →