and Advertising

No matter how you try to change the subject of the thread, no mater how you trim a bit off the edges to make it conform with what you're about to argue, the simple fact is that the discussion was about ads run next to news stories that specifically disparaged the stuff being advertised directly or categorically.

Almost *all* news is "negative in content."

Not a single example shown... Jim Lane thinks that when the 11:00 news comes on TV, the whole rest of the station is dark. Nobody home. Just the guy reading news. No producers. No directors. Nobody working the board that has all the commercials stored in the computer that can be manipulated right up to the time the spot runs - or doesn't run.

No one watching anything else but that lonely guy up in front of the

Idiot.

Bonehead. Why would Swatch take offense at this? You still don't get it. You never will. It looks like you have what to your tortured mind is an example - the first one. It really looks like the only example. And it's not what we were talking about, anyway.

Do you not know that the banners aren't controlled by the web site operators? So this might be the only setting where this thing might happen.

Your density is the new standard. More dense than lead. More dense than depleted uranium. Jim Lane - depleted Uranus.

Jim Lane, give it a rest. Were I the ad manager at Swatch, I'd have not a single issue with this. It makes the ad memorable. And no one will *not* buy a swatch because of this.

Jim Lane, you're an idiot desperate to gain some traction back from your shabby display here recently. You know nothing about the field of advertising, nothing about news, nothing about media management, nothing about marketing. Yet you continue to try to argue what you know nothing about. And you can't even imagine how it makes you look. Your frantic bluster about the .22 thread and how you triumphed over me when I hadn't posted anything about guns to it says all that needs to be said. I note nothing approximating an apology for the misunderstanding and the posts where you gloated so stupidly over a triumph in a contest that never happened. You were absolutely, completely, utterly, unarguably dead wrong. I note no recognition of that fact from you.

It's painful to watch you obsess on your ego. It's a sad thing to watch a grown man so captured by trying to save face when there's none left to save.

So, Jim Lane. Did you ever figure out how you screwed the pooch so badly and didn't know who was kicking your butt after all in that .22 thread...?

Um, I don't really care. Just felt like poking you in your obsession, again because you wear so many "kick me" signs. Had enough yet...?

Idiot.

Pastorio