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Excellent flash ad from Take Back the Media: “Army of One”. They’re collecting donations to see if they can get it put on national TV, too.
(via Daily Kos)
yawn
(hands Brian a pillow) ;)
Many thanks. :-) Actually, I was thinking about my comment on the drive home this afternoon, and was thinking how I read “excellent FLASH AD” when you were really talking about the content of the ad (I assume).
I’d yawn about the content too, since I can read it on MeFi ad nauseum or get it on NPR, but IMHO it’s not very good Flash.
However, that’s really not my point. I think my point is that I wonder how often what I say is misinterpreted (sp?) by my readers, and I wonder if I should go to greater lengths to explain what I mean if, for example, I say that something is great, wonderful, crappy, whatever. You know, explain /why/ I feel that way about it. Hmm. Just thinking out loud, comments-wise. :-)
I enjoy reading your blog.
Admittedly, I was a little curious as to just what the yawn was aimed at — thanks for coming back! I’ll definitely agree that the flash work itself is less than stellar, though it gets the message across. As for the message itself, sure, most of the content wasn’t new to me either, but I like the fact that they’re attempting to adapt it to TV. There’s many, many people who don’t cruise MeFi/blogs/etc. that might be surprised by some of the facts in there.
There’s many, many people who don’t cruise MeFi/blogs/etc. that might be surprised by some of the facts in there.
But not as surprised to learn that those facts are either outright not true, or grossly misleading misrepresentations. Most of those memes have been beaten to death in the blogosphere, and some have taken a pasting in the major media as well. It probably won’t make it to major media without paid sponsorship, because the reputable media outlets recognize it for the crock that it is.
These themes haven’t gained any widespread traction, for one very basic reason. Many of them are flat out not true. Demonstrably so. And much more so than a single word out of sixteen that never actually was uttered.