Politically incoherent with a MultiCultClassics Monologue…
• The Senate approved a measure to make English the national language. “We are not a nation based on race,” Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) proclaimed. “We are a fragile idea based on a few common principles and our national common language.” Minority Leader Sen. Harry Reid countered, “I believe this amendment is racist. … I think it’s directed basically to people who speak Spanish.” Well, our political leaders continue to demonstrate their universal ability to talk trash.
• BellSouth is now demanding a retraction from USA TODAY for its story on telecommunications companies providing customer phone records to the National Security Agency. “No such proof was offered by your newspaper because no such contracts exist,” stated a letter from BellSouth. “You have offered no proof that BellSouth provided massive calling data to the NSA as part of a warrantless program because it simply did not happen.” However, the company does not deny consistently screwing up customers’ phone bills.
• Sprite appears to be abandoning its hip-hop connections, presenting a new campaign featuring “subLYMONal” advertising. While the Miles Thirst character definitely deserved to die, it will be interesting to see how the soft drink fares with its new direction. Particularly since nearly every competing brand inevitably jumped on the hip-hop bandwagon.
3 comments:
Miles Thirst ripped off from Lil' Penny.
And the new bandwagon is apparently graffiti.
USA Today stands by it story. And Bellsouth, just stop already, ok? Every ISP has to be ready to turn over it's records in case crimes are committed. To say you didn't turn over any info is not just playing semantics, it's insulting.
Yahoo already turned over their records. Do you think no such agency hasn’t already accessed this blog, your servers or my cell phone logs without us knowing? Please.
If the agency I work for can monitor and store 1 million posts a day and archive 20 out of the approx. 36 millions blogs so far, hmmm, I think a government agency might be able to.
Coke is trying to fuel Sprite sales by trying to create a pop icon firmly entrenched in hip-hop culture — an urban-rooted style so broad today that Miles Thirst also can appeal to teen males in suburbia.
"The way hip-hop has evolved, it's more multicultural in nature," says John Carroll, Sprite group director. "It's not about race anymore."
In fact, white, suburban teen males represent a bigger chunk of hip-hop expenditures than the black community.
USA today
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