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Originally Posted by mookiemookie
What I found ghoulish and inappropriate were all the 9/11 themed commercials during the football games yesterday. Using a tragedy in an attempt to advertise your company as patriotic and benevolent is just plain exploitative. State Farm, Southwest Airlines and Budweiser were the ones I can remember offhand.
Pure crass marketing and a slap in the face to the people who lost loved ones that day.
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Well this kind of activity is not new nowadays. Monetary gain is the most important thing, only after that comes everything else. Basically, the more you profit, the more you are ready to bend your principles. (wish I'd remember the name of the guy who wrote about this. IIRC he was french and lived in 19th century.)