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Friday, 21 December 2012
Television commercials
Today,
on television commercials, propositions are as scarce as unattractive people.
The truth or falsity of an advertiser's claim is simply not an issue. A
McDonald's commercial, for example, is not a series of testable, logically
ordered assertions. It is a drama--a mythology, if you will--of beautiful & happy people
selling, buying and eating hamburgers, and being driven to near ecstasy by
their good fortune. No claim are made, except those the viewer projects onto or
infers from the drama. One can like or dislike a television commercial, of
course. But one cannot refute it.
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