{"id":6203,"date":"2010-04-22T18:27:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T01:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/?p=6203"},"modified":"2010-04-22T18:28:02","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T01:28:02","slug":"letter-to-abcfox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/22\/letter-to-abcfox\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to ABC\/FOX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear ABC\/FOX,<\/p>\n<p>While marketing its intended product, the Cacique commercial sells a positive thinking, self-affirming message to its viewers.\u00c2\u00a0 This is in contrast to ads for similar products, which, while marketing themselves, sell a degrading, self-hating message to viewers.\u00c2\u00a0 What do you get when you have marketing plus good vibes?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, we viewers call that a win-win.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m not exactly sure why you all call it inappropriate during your prime-time spots.\u00c2\u00a0 But maybe, if you pulled your heads out of your arses, you&#8217;d see it for what it truly is&#8230; a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>Yours,<\/p>\n<p>A Sometimes Viewer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VMxyZQfMmM4\">Here&#8217;s the &#8220;controversial&#8221; ad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/insidecurve.lanebryant.com\/buzz\/the-lingerie-commercial-fox-and-abc-didnt-want-it\/\">article about the ad<\/a>. (h\/t: Scott!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear ABC\/FOX, While marketing its intended product, the Cacique commercial sells a positive thinking, self-affirming message to its viewers.\u00c2\u00a0 This is in contrast to ads for similar products, which, while marketing themselves, sell a degrading, self-hating message to viewers.\u00c2\u00a0 What do you get when you have marketing plus good vibes?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, we viewers call that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[200],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6203"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6206,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203\/revisions\/6206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}