» Commenting on former MLK aide Andrew Young's new role as a spokesman for WalMart, the Consumerist has this right: "Can we say commodifying credibility? [...] This is the same tactic as putting a hot chick next to a toaster in an ad, hoping to give the toaster sex appeal. There's a flip-side to that transference equation: the chick comes out looking like, by virtue of association, an appliance."
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Andrew Young: Now Shilling for WalMart
[ 03.17.06 ]
I'm still trying to get over hearing WalMart advertising itself as do-gooder on NPR. Until they feel as though their employees are also worthy of living a "middle-class lifestyle," I'm not buying it. Or anything from them.
WalMart: Uplifting the Poor Through Better Bathroom Accessories.
I find it very perplexing that a blog with consumerism as its topic (The Consumerist) has ads, and very large, prominent, and numerous ones at that. More ads than I've ever seen on any blog.