Why? (#1, as there are doubtless going to be many more such questions)

[logangrey]

Tonight I saw: "The Naked Truth: Advertising's Image of Women", a talk by Jean Kilbourne, sponsored by SAPAC and half a dozen other UofM groups focusing on women's issues, and it led to some questions.

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[earthfiregirl]

I heard Jean Kilbourne speak in LA at a conference about five years ago. She signed my copy of "Can’t Buy My Love":) It was an amazing presentation, and I'm sorry that I missed last night's lecture

[logangrey]

Very good points. How enraging that they're profiting from creating problems, in our personal images, and in our personal lives, and then profiting from selling us solutions to those problems. How sad that our economy would collapse (at least that's what many fear) if we took all that crap away. We've got to get away from this. Better separation between fantasy and reality would help too. For example- Republican budgets: fantasy. People dying in Iraq: reality. Sigh.

Heh, have you actually found a book that has a commercial in it? Or a product placement? That's very sad. I hope that doesn't take off. In Readers Digest, you can tear it out, but then the book falls open to that page every time. :-P

[aerospcgrl]

The back of some books now contain snippets of other books that the given publisher is marketing at the time... I can see this getting worse.