Commercialization Gone Too Far...

[Msterbeau]

"The National Football League has passed a new rule for the upcoming season that requires photographers at NFL games to wear red vests with Canon and Reebok logos on them, and the news is not being very well received by some editors and photography directors as word spreads through the journalism community."

http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2007/07/nfl01.html

Journalists/photographers are not fucking billboards. Assholes.

[Sybil]

hahahahahahahaaaa!!!

*coughs*

Aww.. poor Marc, man, its like you took that one personally.

If you had to wear one of those youd still look great!

(I wish I could do a quick "mock up" photo.. a smilin you with a vest and a camara...)

*runs*

DONT BEAT ME AGAIN.......

[Scary Guy]

If you had to wear one of those youd still look great!

He'd look like a sellout, which is what it would be.

Hopefully people cover it less because of that. People pay way too much attention to sports as it is.

"DON'T MESS WITH FOOTBALL!"

[creatureofthenyte]

Well, I can see how it would be offensive to some people.

I can also see Marc's point of view on this.

One thought that comes to my mind though; if the individual journalist/photographer is getting paid a royalty payment or something similar, for wearing the advertisement vest, in a way, that would make it worth it to me.

If it were me, and I was offered a nice check just for wearing an ad vest like that, and all I had to do with it was wear it while Im on the job working, and have it be seen on tv, I'd do it. That's easy money.

[sass_in_the_pants]

People PAY MONEY to wear shirts with the Nike swoosh on it. They should be HONORED to not have to pay to wear these.

[Hellion]

They even commercialized the fart,LOL!!

[Scary Guy]

People PAY MONEY to wear shirts with the Nike swoosh on it. They should be HONORED to not have to pay to wear these.

[sass_in_the_pants]

Nice.

[Scary Guy]

Nice.

Yeah, I thought so, here's another favorite.

But getting back on topic, for serious now...

http://www.khaaan.com

Sorry I'm a huge startrek geek.

Moving right along... What SITP said makes sense, in a twisted Romulan logic way. People PAY MONEY for the right to be walking billboards for the company. Kind of like when I laugh at everyone in a TOOL T-shirt and they're paying good money to label themselves as tools (I bet that's the entire reason Maynard came up with the name and he secretly laughs at everyone with a tool shirt on). Or even worse when Disney going after people who put Mickey Mouse on their shirts, it's FREE FUCKING ADVERTISING for them and they go around suing them for it trying to get even more money from them, mostly because they can.

Commercialization isn't completely bad. The advertisers help to pay for the service. But they make so much money off of that AND us they really line their pocket books with all that dough. It's like we're paying for cable, and the ads on the basic network package we watch. It's kind of like we're paying twice for the service.

"Public Relations" and "Marketing" are just fancy terms for "Propaganda" and all we are is a bunch of walking wallets to them. They will do ANYTHING to get out money or control over what we think, possibly including ritual animal sacrifice in some cases. Some have even started a campaign to boycott Mozilla Firefox because of how well the adblock plus extension works for it.

http://adblockplus.org/blog/mozilla-hurtin...ng-adblock-plus

I see both sides of the argument but I don't care, kind of like the mp3 arguement. If a site/piece of artwork is good then the users will support it. If not then it will atrophy and die off like the piece of fracking dreck that is is (two references, go me!).

it gets much worse than this.

There are people that GET PAID to go into a popular place and just sit, then chat you up in a casual conversation about a particular product.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shill

[Scary Guy]

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/27/business/wrap.php

Guys get paid $500-800 a month to be rolling advertisements.