advertising

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/11/2022
  

  Can the Techniques of Antismoking Ads Work for Gun Violence?

  Antismoking PSAs shifted attention from individual smokers to the tobacco companies profiting from selling dangerous products. Can the same work to reduce the appeal of guns? 

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• SOURCE: Nature
  10/18/2021
  

  How Cigarettes Became a Civil Rights Issue

  Medical Historian Keith Wailoo's new book argues that tobacco companies have systematically targeted Black communities with advertisements for menthol cigarettes and enlisted Black civil rights leaders to oppose regulations on flavored tobacco sales. 

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  6/29/2020
  

  Family Of Woman Who Portrayed Aunt Jemima Speaks Out About Quaker Oats's Rebranding Decision

  To keep her aunt’s legacy alive, Harris says her family hopes Quaker Oats comes out with a commemorative box to recognize the many women who portrayed Aunt Jemima over the years.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  6/19/2020
  

  The Fight To Commemorate Nancy Green, The Woman Who Played The Original 'Aunt Jemima'

  Local historians in Chicago seek to preserve the life story of Nancy Green, whose life was only partly defined by the advertising symbol she portrayed. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  5/12/2020
  

  The Dirty History of Soap

  by Judith Ridner

  Evolving from home production utilizing waste to industrial manufacturing using highly engineered ingredients, the making of soap has been a dirty process.

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  5/6/2020
  

  As the World Churns

  by Peter Manseau

  The story behind 'Mia,' the Native American woman who was the face on Land O'Lakes butter packaging for almost a century.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/29/2020
  

  My Native American Father Drew the Land O’Lakes Maiden. She was Never a Stereotype.

  by Robert DesJarlait

  The son of the Red Lake Ojibwe artist who redesigned "Mia" contends that taking her image off the butter package destroys a symbolic connection between indigenous people and place. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  3/20/19
  

  The Story of the Dionne Quintuplets Is a Cautionary Tale for the Age of ‘Kidfluencers’

  by Shelley Wood

  The pitfalls and payoffs of advertising directly to children have consumed psychologists, pediatricians, marketers and anxious parents for the better part of a century, but the ethics of using children and babies for product endorsement has received much less attention.

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• SOURCE: Press Release -- Adam Matthew
  10-4-16
  

  Duke University to digitize archives from J. Walter Thompson

  The digitization of America’s pioneering advertising agency records will be a major resource for scholars.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12-9-13
  

  Ads Use Famous Figures to Put a Face on a Problem

  A new ad campaign in Los Angeles highlights famous figures from history who may have been autistic.

• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  2-22-13
  

  Abraham Lincoln: President, Emancipator, Corporate Pitchman

  For almost a century, Lincoln Motor Company paid homage to our 16th president in name only – hoping the mere mention of the man who saved the Union and abolished slavery would somehow cast an aura of prestige and integrity over their product and resonate with potential car buyers.In December, however, the automaker began using Lincoln’s likeness in its advertising for the first time. The motor company says the move was not tied to the release of Steven Spielberg’s epic film Lincoln – even though parts of the ad for the new MKZ, in which the president’s likeness emerges dramatically from layers of fog, look as if they could’ve been pulled from the cutting room floor.Instead, the automaker told The New York Times, it’s trying to connect its vehicles to Lincoln’s “fortitude and elegant thinking” — and that the timing with the film’s release was just good luck....