Tag: Duane Jones
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What is a politician?
A politician is a salesman for broadcast media. TV started in 1948 as a way for people to watch live sports events. Radio was inadequate for the purpose. For a few decades TV provided a broader range of entertainment. Now it’s back to nothing but sports. There are four major-league sports on TV. Football, baseball,…
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Clarifier
The three-way division of sales targets into Conservative Prospects, Step-up Prospects and Luxury Prospects seems to have been common currency among all the dealers. For my purposes the division serves as an illuminator. It’s not a unique division by any means; the ancient and Orwellian caste divisions are exactly parallel. Auto Ancient Orwell Conservative Prospect…
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At least they understood
These old sales training films sometimes (but not always) treated the Conservative Prospect as undesirable and the Step-up Prospect and Luxury Prospect as desirable. Ford tended to hold the Conservative Prospect in slightly higher esteem. But they all recognized that PEOPLE ARE DIFFERENT. The companies made DIFFERENT MODELS to qualify the DIFFERENT PROSPECTS. Ford’s three…
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How to depersuade
Persuading by shaming seems to be a trend lately, at least in the spam from campaigns and the writing by advocates. The Trump campaign spam constantly says things like “I never expected this from YOU, Friend!” Advocates at Compact Mag write articles telling the reader he’s an idiot. This isn’t how you gather followers or…
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Meta-trust
I noticed somebody citing a poll on trusted institutions by the Edelman outfit. Looked and quickly realized the “poll” was a pusher. It was telling businesses that they need to be strictly DNC if they want to be trusted. More “climate”, more “diversity”, more “virus”, more “science”. This obviously won’t work. Taking a side is…
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Depends on what you offer
There’s a lot of bitching lately about ‘audience capture’, meaning that the newspaper or broadcaster is forced to keep pleasing only Democrats or only Repooflicans. The bitchers are blaming the audience, ordering us to pay for stuff we don’t want in order to prevent the broadcasters from being ‘captured’. Wrong. Capture is permanent, inevitable and…
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We manage somehow
It’s a peculiar situation. Polls consistently show that 2/3 of the population is perfectly tired of the political and corporate teams and all the crimes committed by the political and corporate teams. Yet no writers or politicians or corporations or advertisers or churches or entertainers are trying to pick up this audience. All the output…
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Hit first and hit hard
DeSantis is ‘pivoting’ toward his real intention now. None of these candidates were really applying for the job of president. Everyone knew that TrumpBiden is the sole candidate and the guaranteed heir. (Doesn’t matter which label it’s wearing, TrumpBiden is one monster.) Auditioning is normal. Whenever the incumbent is guaranteed, a flock of newcomers jump…
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Vivek drops
Drops out and endorses Trump. Not a shock but still disappointing. I’d be happier if he quit without betraying his followers. He’s too realistic to believe he ever had a chance. From the start he was obviously auditioning or rehearsing for something else, probably not a conventional political office. I still like Vivek. He brought…
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Wrong variable
Headline: Facebook and Instagram Allegedly Hook Youngsters with Dopamine Triggering Tactics That’s a constant, not a variable. Every successful business tries to hook customers by manipulating pleasure vs pain. The variable is what the product does after you’re hooked. If the product is food or clothing or furniture or harmless sensory experiences like chewing gum…
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Watching a couple of baits
Still waiting for a new publication that delivers on its promise. Kirn promised an uncensored newspaper. I subscribed for $50 because I’m hungry for a REAL newspaper. Complete failure. It’s a long-winded Beat Generation literary magazine, similar to FrontPorchRepublic but more expensive. If it’s uncensored, it doesn’t show any signs of radical content. The “censored”…
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GetReligion closes
The GetReligion blog, which I’ve often read and cited here, has decided to close down in February, on the 20th anniversary of its startup. Mattingly says that their original purpose is now futile. GetReligion has always been written FOR journalists, not really FOR ordinary readers. Their commenting policy made the distinction clear. If you had…
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King Solomon’s rosary
One of those supershort Ripley pieces tells a strange story. A village in India commonly received rain including pre-drilled beads. The natives gathered them and strung them into ‘King Solomon’s Rosaries’. Several old books note that Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists use rosaries; the Buddhist version is well known. Finally found the source of Ripley’s story.…
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Natural, not natural
Advertising is natural. Most plants and animals advertise either positively or negatively. Plants create colors and smells and electrostatic fields to attract pollinators. Male animals use color and smell and sound to attract females and scare off competitors. Some are false advertisers, disguising themselves as poisonous or attractive or big. Basing a business on advertising…
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