Communication Topics has previously covered the National Guard advertising campaign that featured Kid Rock’s rendition of “Citizen Soldier”. The campaign runs in movie theatres prior to the feature presentation and reflects an overtly positive view of American Foreign policy and military intervention abroad.
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Watching America: Website Offers Insight into Foreign Press and Opinion
Watching America: Website Offers Insight into Foreign Press and Opinion
Forget Red vs. Blue — It’s the Educated vs. People Easily Fooled by Propaganda
Forget Red vs. Blue — It’s the Educated vs. People Easily Fooled by Propaganda
Live MSNBC News Stream on Election Day
Live MSNBC News Stream on Election Day
Religious Right Hypocrisy: Social Restriction and Economic Freedom
Religious Right Hypocrisy: Social Restriction and Economic Freedom
UK Buses to Slight God and Organized Religion with Advertising Campaign
UK Buses to Slight God and Organized Religion with Advertising Campaign
Gwen Ifill VP Debate Mod Criticized Unnecessarily
Gwen Ifill VP Moderator Criticized Unnecessarily
Kid Rock ‘Warrior’ Propaganda at the Movies
Pre-roll movie theatre advertisements, although somewhat irritating in a pay-to-play environment, can be extremely effective due to the captive attention of an engaged and relatively targeted audience. Therefore, it makes for the perfect environment in which to use propaganda. Not since Americans visited the movie theatre for a dose of news from the war front [...]
Unbiased Media Coverage for the First 2008 Presidential Debate?
The news media and respectable political blogs assert that the first of several presidential debates was a draw, as the following web pages illustrate.
However, in the effort to appear unbiased, the news media is actually persuading the viewing audience to tune in longer and with more fervor. The end game is to attract viewers and [...]
Best Communication and Politics Blogs
Whether it is advertising, marketing, branding, direct response, ad networks, interactive development, political theory, the upcoming election, or case studies, visit the following sites often to get good information from professionals in the industry and from good citizens/journalists:
Review of Garcia’s “The New Mainstream”
America’s social and economic infrastructure is hinged on its response to the new mainstream. In The New Mainstream, Guy Garcia discusses the changing cultural and demographic composition of the country and how it is affecting various aspects of modern existence in America, such as commerce, entertainment, politics, and religion.
Review of Halter’s “Shopping for Identity”
It has been established that within a consumer society an individual’s identity is largely determined by the purchases that he or she makes.
Review of Poteat’s “Polanyian Meditations: In Search of a Post Critical Logic”
In Polanyian Meditations, William Poteat attempts to combat the ill effects of the mistakes made during the Enlightenment.
