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Originally Posted by PA32R
A very interesting analysis. But someone is paying to have Sarah Palin become a household word and make her attractive to the voting public. Who will pay to make the Boxfish desirable? Car companies pay Madison Avenue to make the cars they already make or will make desirable, they're not motivated to spend money to make people adopt a new way of evaluating automobiles. Two years ago, it was all about power. Now, it's all about fuel efficiency. Yet it's the same vehicles being advertised.
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Its a good question.For me the greater issue would be that it could be done.My opinion is that since television is the source most rely on as their window to the world,and the "vocabulary" they use to "think" about the world they live in,how public opinion is "molded" to bring the world around to a different way of thinking about cars will probably come through television.------------------------------------Since television was not "commercial" in the beginning,theoretically,television isn't reliant for it's existence on revenues generated through ads.
Additionally,since the media is licensed to operate by the federal govt. and at times has withheld news at the govt's behest,when such news was deemed potentially harmfull should the general public have access to it,the media already has a "history" of working with the govt..------------------------------------ Should the govt.truly believe that we need to get out of the Middle East,and cut our "addiction to foreign oil",and that high mpg "funny-looking" cars be part of that equation,then within 60-days,through the metamorphising majic of television,the govt' could have every patriotic American television viewer champing at the bit to dump their SUV or pickup and slip behind the wheel of some "monstrocity".It's all how they spin it.And the stations could litterally be forced to participate under threat of their FCC license.The taxpayer would ultimately pick up the check,but they pay indirectly for everthing anyway.----------------------------- When George Will and George Stephanopoulis and Diane Sawyer,and Regis Philbun,and David letterman,and Montel Williams and Oprah Winfrey and the rest get going,there'd be no stopping it.Throw in some heavyweight celebrities from the Hollywood big-screen and it would reach critical mass.------------------------ It all comes down to priorities and understanding the English language.If you're say pro-life,then you cannot accept the death your car creates in Afganistan and Iraq,and it will become your spiritual and moral imperative to get off foreign oil.however you can do it.--------------------------- Presently,millions of Americans use words they don't know the meaning of,and casually toss out remarks which bely their true behavior.When a real dialogue begins,people may wake up.I'm not saying it will be pretty,but nothing changes without it.