Media Bias Is The Stock In Trade Of The News Reporting Industry
It is interesting to me that media bias is suddenly popping up on some people’s radars due to, of all things, a perceived tendency to ignore Hillary Clinton’s faults, and to throw a spotlight on those of her competitor Donald Trump. When these same...
Post Fact Politics Is The Ugly Offspring Of Post Fact Journalism
Truth is important – facts are unassailable; and they are either facts or not … it is not dependent on viewpoint. If you market your product as being something and it proves not to be, you will be upbraided for false advertising. Look at how newspapers and...
Political Correctness And P.R. (Part 4: The Future)
Political Correctness Does Have A P.R. Demon. And now: our conclusion. I’ve spent a long time typing/talking about the importance and relevance and idealness of the political correctness situation. I’ve endorsed and argued. But, now, for those still opposed and...
Trump And Clinton: Marketing A Hobson’s Choice
Anyone else burnt out on stupid? Burnt out on the depraved lowest common denominator BS that is being paraded around as if it were actually politics? Are these two people the best that the country can do in terms of leaders? If so, we should not really wonder at why...
Political Correctness And P.R. (Part 3: The Present)
Maintaining P.R. In Modern Day Is A Balancing Act, But Worthwhile I am a millennial. And as a person born to modern times, I have little issue with the ideas of “safe spaces” or “trigger words.” And if an individual finds he does not identify as the gender his body is...
Political Correctness And P.R. (Part 2: The Past)
The P.R. of The Past Is Not The P.R. Of The Present This is a tentative article. Because I am going to skirt along the lines of seriously loaded historical issues here. But this is not, at the end of the day, a discussion specifically about the nature of racism. That...
Political Correctness And P.R. (Part 1: Overview)
Political Correctness Has, Ironically, It’s Own P.R. Issues The words to spark controversy are numerous and varied. Even the words for not saying those controversial words are themselves controversial words. If that sounds confusing, don’t worry: it’s because it...
Advertising The Donald’s Problem
Advertising the First Presidential Debate and Mr. Trump’s Achille’s Heel Last night was the first debate for presidential candidates, and while both campaigns had strategies for advertising what should be considered a win, lose or draw for each candidate,...
Advertising Prejudice in Politics and Life
Advertising Ethnic Prejudice in our current Environment Slick Willy has made a life as a career politician, so when he speaks to the nature of the political spectrum I believe that he probably has a valid perspective. Last night he went on the Daily Show with Trevor...
Are Honest Politicians Really As Rare As Hen’s Teeth?
Finding an honest politician is like finding hen’s teeth, unicorns, the holy grail … you get the idea. No one expects the noise made in the electoral process to be mirrored by the actions in office. Well, that’s not strictly true – for a brief...
Sloganeering – All In A Phrase
Politicians, or more specifically Presidential Candidates. Where do they sit? How do they view the lay of the land? What do their slogans say about them and their relationship with the country they want to rule. Make America Great Again presupposes that it isn’t...
Video Games Can Promote A Better World (Part 2)
It Always Starts With A Lighthouse, And An Idea To Promote Bioshock Infinite is a masterpiece with serious flaws. There, got that part out of the way. Now let’s talk about what it tried to promote. While the first Bioshock tackled everyone having full control over...
Video Games Can Promote A Better World (Part 1)
Some Games Choose Something Different, Some Games Choose…To Promote I am about to get supremely nerdy in this article, because for one of the first times, I get to talk about two of my favorite things in the world: social science and the Bioshock video game...
Advertising the Naturalization Exam for Office
Advertising Education & Naturalization Here’s an interesting conundrum to ponder: Who should taken a naturalization/citizenship test for residency in the United States? Sen. Harry Reid believes that Mr. Trump would fail such a test. Mr. Kzir Khan has...
Market Us Out Of The Media Bubble
The Media Bubble Markets To Something We All Want: Social Acceptance What makes you angry? A lot of things? A few things? Various things? I imagine something makes you angry. Does a conflicting opinion make you angry? It does for a lot of people. Men and women who are...
Marketing Politicians–And Why I’m Less Sure
Their Marketing Is Improper, And Thus I Have No Idea What They Are Really Selling I’ve made comments on politicians. I’ve held my ground in arguments. I’ve been wrong and I’ve been right—and I’m not sure which was which. And at the end of it, I am less sure of what...
The Marketing of Hate and the 1st Amendment
It has been a long time coming, and I have had no good reason to really address this topic till recently. So why am I addressing this issue now? And what issue am I confronting? It’s called hate speech, anti-semitism, ethno-centricism (racism to the uneducated)...
PR of Qualifying Our Elected Officials
The Pr We Provide Election Candidates Over the past week there has been a lot of information published and disseminated about the different candidates for federal office, and there have been some candidates that have notably received little to no pr time. Take Hilary...
Marketing Socialism Is A Bad Thing!
You’ve Heard The Positive Marketing For Socialism, Now Here’s The Rebuttal I cannot believe I need to talk about this. I can’t believe I need to say it. Socialism is a bad thing! How long have we Americans spent fighting against communism and socialism and...
Election Convention PR
The PR of the National Conventions I have had multiple conversations about how the RNC and DNC conventions this summer are going to go. One of the biggest things that keeps coming up in my conversations and those of others that I am reading on other news oriented...
Donald Trump Wins–And His Marketing Does Too
Donald’s Marketing On Point: 45.7% Of The Votes And 99 Delegates! Well, Clearwater and the rest of Florida spoke with their votes and the answer was unsurprising. Because, of course, Donald Trump won the Republican primary in our fine Sunshine State. And I’d...
Advertising Economic Policy
Advertising the Problems with Liberal and Conservative Economic Agendas In an election year there are always key issues that dominate the foreground. I do not need to cite any academic or public sources to inform you that the Economy is one of the biggest issues in...
Education System of Common Core
Does our Education System Help or Hurt our Children? Education Definition: the process of training and developing the knowledge, skill, mind, character, etc., especially by formal schooling; teaching & training The US has a long history (dating back to the 1600’s)...