Comments on: The Branding of Childhood http://www.popocculture.com/27/the-branding-of-childhood Transcend Trends Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:11:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: The Next New Networks Blog » Blog Archive » I hate branding. http://www.popocculture.com/27/the-branding-of-childhood#comment-1295 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 01:40:00 +0000 http://www.popocculture.com/27/the-branding-of-childhood#comment-1295 [...] [...] […] […]

]]> by: Pop Occulture http://www.popocculture.com/27/the-branding-of-childhood#comment-292 Tue, 19 Sep 2006 23:38:03 +0000 http://www.popocculture.com/27/the-branding-of-childhood#comment-292 Asking the FCC to protect consumers seems like asking a hungry wolf not to eat you. Maybe it would work but there must be a better more direct mechanism. First off, maybe we should stop identifying ourselves as consumers. We are people! Asking the FCC to protect consumers seems like asking a hungry wolf not to eat you. Maybe it would work but there must be a better more direct mechanism.

First off, maybe we should stop identifying ourselves as consumers. We are people!

]]> by: Alice http://www.popocculture.com/27/the-branding-of-childhood#comment-288 Tue, 19 Sep 2006 04:02:35 +0000 http://www.popocculture.com/27/the-branding-of-childhood#comment-288 Wow. You are soooo on point. I thought it was just me that noticed this, especially because I studied advertising / design, but eventually refuse to work in that part of the commercial arts world (it's just too dirty. I could have not said it any better. I understand too that companies have to sell products the best they can. but can they just back the F off a little. I believe this type of programming has been going on much longer. It's just more tactful than ever. It's soooo manipulative at times that I will catch myself screaming at the tv in disgust! This is the age of "cross manipulation". May be people should start send major complaint emails in masses to the FCC and may be media rules and regulations can be adjusted to protect the consumers right to make choices on their own. Am i asking for too much? I hope not. Wow. You are soooo on point. I thought it was just me that noticed this, especially because I studied advertising / design, but eventually refuse to work in that part of the commercial arts world (it’s just too dirty.
I could have not said it any better. I understand too that companies have to sell products the best they can. but can they just back the F off a little. I believe this type of programming has been going on much longer. It’s just more tactful than ever. It’s soooo manipulative at times that I will catch myself screaming at the tv in disgust! This is the age of “cross manipulation”. May be people should start send major complaint emails in masses to the FCC and may be media rules and regulations can be adjusted to protect the consumers right to make choices on their own. Am i asking for too much? I hope not.

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