Category Archives: advertising

American Owned

Posted on June 6, 2017 by Cynthia Coleman Emery

Code for Whites Only Somewhere between here and Gallup is a Raffi musical tape by the road, thrown overboard after too many renditions of Baby Beluga. During my graduate school years we travelled across the USA by car, loaded with … Continue reading →

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POLITICAL NEWS: Part 2 of 3

Posted on August 23, 2016 by Cynthia Coleman Emery

Lipstick on a pig? A toad?  (My last blog, Stuck on the Tar Baby, takes a look at what it means in the worlds of journalism and public-relations to frame $2 billion in “free” press coverage in today’s presidential campaign. … Continue reading →

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Advertising’s Ubiquity

Posted on April 11, 2016 by Cynthia Coleman Emery

The word of the day in our propaganda class is ubiquity. Advertising, we learned, is ubiquitous. Borrowed from the Latin, by way of the French, ubique refers to “everywhere.” Students understand advertising completely, offering examples from the logos on football … Continue reading →

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Clooney’ s cash cow

Posted on December 23, 2015 by Cynthia Coleman Emery

Still: it’s about the money Amsterdam still has the feel of a sweet, old city. Nice, when you consider the commercial ubiquity of traveling to foreign lands. If you travel to Rome you can chomp chicken at KFC and if … Continue reading →

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