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Guilty as charged! It just

joelb28 — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:41:03 -0400

Guilty as charged! It just struck me as a condescending set of interviews, more akin to "Heavy Metal Parking Lot" than serious journalism.

But I guess this is how mainstream media shows it's still relevant in the age of Stewart and Colbert. The follow-up to Heavy Metal Parking Lot, by the way, was called "Neil Diamond Parking Lot." I expect to see Hockenberry reporting from outside a Whole Foods store later this summer.

I happen to live in PA but have friends in DC who have expressed an interest in Cabela's. Some urbanites, apparently, like to hunt, fish and/or go outside.

Ignorance

Joshua Levy — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:04:00 -0400

Clearly, I don't live in PA, so my bad about the "randomness" of the Cabela's. But while it's possible that these could be suburban Philly-ites or folks from inside the Beltway (really?), they're still shopping at a hunting/fishing/outdoor goods store.

Looks fun.

Ben Welsh — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:48:18 -0400

Looks like a fun concept here. For anyone interested in following the live statewide results from PA on Twitter, we've got a new account set up at the LA Times that will be up to the minute. Check it out at the following link:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/04/tickettwitter.html

"random" cabela's?

joelb28 — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:07:40 -0400

I don't mean to nitpick but there's only one Cabela's store in all of PA, so it isn't exactly random. Meanwhile, none of the people interviewed give a hometown, so they may not even be rural Pennsylvanians, given the distance people usually travel to get to a Cabela's. They could be from suburban Philly -- or, god help us, from inside the Beltway.

MySpace and NBC?

bhschenker — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:26:46 -0400

Have to say I'm a little confused as to why MySpace would team up with NBC when it's owned by NewsCorp. To me this is a lost opportunity to expand the Fox News brand online and bring some sort of corporate online synergy (cue scenes from In Good Company). I'd think it'd be a good idea to push the Fox brand to the MySpace audience and attempt to shrug off the negative perception it has by some.

Brett Schenker
5B Consulting

Wanted: Internet Advertising Pioneers

Michael Organ — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:31:13 -0400

If pioneering political advertising on the internet is your dream: Contact me.

I'm looking for enormously over-qualified internet ad buyers and search engine marketers who want to fully dedicate themselves to making history for Barack Obama's campaign for President. Previous direct response experience is a must.

If that's you, and you're willing to volunteer or work full-time in Obama for America's Chicago HQ, please contact me at morgan -AT- barackobama.com

Michael Organ
Director of Internet Advertising
Obama for America

Persuasion Ads Online

Michael Turk — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:27:47 -0400

It will be interesting to see how well this works for the Obama campaign. We're not likely to see any actual data on their success/failure until after the campaign (if even then).

We did tests of online persuasion ads with the Bush campaign. The net result was actually a lower opinion of Bush after exposure to the ad. It was clearly not the result we expected to see.

I've always attributed that to cognitive dissonance because the ads ran during the Abu Ghraib scandal. People had a hard time reconciling positive images of the President on education with the negative impression left by the images they saw on the news.

I think the environment for Obama's experiment is much better.

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der74hva3 — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:10:58 -0500

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