Comments on: Straw Men In Advertising http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/02/straw_men_in_ad.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:51:16 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Jon Krueger http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/02/straw_men_in_ad.html/comment-page-1#comment-60336 Jon Krueger Tue, 22 Aug 2006 03:14:51 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2006/02/straw-men-in-advertising.html#comment-60336 Rite Aid is taking a stand: http://www.rawbw.com/~jpk/stand/Pictures.html Rite Aid is taking a stand:

http://www.rawbw.com/~jpk/stand/Pictures.html

]]> By: Stephen http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/02/straw_men_in_ad.html/comment-page-1#comment-60335 Stephen Thu, 23 Feb 2006 02:14:07 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2006/02/straw-men-in-advertising.html#comment-60335 Straw "men"?? How about an ad saying: Prof. Filler's Blog Posts: Now 100 Percent Gendered Language Free! Straw “men”?? How about an ad saying:

Prof. Filler’s Blog Posts: Now 100 Percent Gendered Language Free!

]]> By: Jim Harper http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/02/straw_men_in_ad.html/comment-page-1#comment-60334 Jim Harper Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:19:15 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2006/02/straw-men-in-advertising.html#comment-60334 What an odd complaint. A drug store makes a claim that it's doing more than other drug stores to combat disease - and this is bad? <p> Perhaps stung by the allegation, the other stores will emphasize the fact that they are also working to combat heart disease, or perhaps they will focus on another source of morbidity and mortality. All of them risk being called to account by their competitors if they are lying, of course. <p> So we're faced with commercial entities driven by self-interest to promote healthful products and behaviors to consumers. And this is somehow bad . . . . <p> Advertising uses illogic, puffery, and lots of other techniques to communicate with people. Real people, busy people. People who don't necessarily have time to ruminate about minutiae in their 'blogs, much less respond to other's ruminati - um, I'm just gonna stop there.</p></p></p> What an odd complaint. A drug store makes a claim that it’s doing more than other drug stores to combat disease – and this is bad?

Perhaps stung by the allegation, the other stores will emphasize the fact that they are also working to combat heart disease, or perhaps they will focus on another source of morbidity and mortality. All of them risk being called to account by their competitors if they are lying, of course.

So we’re faced with commercial entities driven by self-interest to promote healthful products and behaviors to consumers. And this is somehow bad . . . .

Advertising uses illogic, puffery, and lots of other techniques to communicate with people. Real people, busy people. People who don’t necessarily have time to ruminate about minutiae in their ‘blogs, much less respond to other’s ruminati – um, I’m just gonna stop there.

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