Martha Stewart

[skywalker]

Originally posted by John D Harris: Skywalker don't shatter My illusion of you being a Yankee Democrat, There's so few I can converse with

Well John, I do tend to lean more towards the liberal side so if you want to think of me as a Yankee Democrat - feel free!

Just trying to help a friend out!

Mark

[John D Harris]

Originally posted by skywalker: Well, I did use martha Stewart as the hook for the question, but it certainly is not just about her products. I wonder how many kids (and adults) bought Air Jordans because og Micheal Jordan's name. I'm not so sure that a majority of people buy stuff because it's good or because a big star tells them to. If they don't, it's odd that the media paints us that way. One of my favorite actors is Harrison Ford. If he sold out(and I do believe endorsing products is selling out)and started hawking Chock Full O' Nuts coffee, I wouldn't just start buying it. I prefer Maxwell House. Now if there was a sale and the price was low, I'd buy a can of CFON coffee. If liked it, I might switch. But not because of Ford. I think the media really thinks we are just a bunch of lemmings! [img]tongue.gif[/img] Mark

The Media does, but to a greater extent it's Madison Ave. that thinks we're lemmings. It's one of the reasons I got out of advertising and went into screenprinting T-shirts. Now I sell statments and feelings to people that want to buy statments and feelings, not to people that want to buy coffee. As one of my instructors in art school used to say "it's all BS and poetry".

[John D Harris]

Originally posted by skywalker: quote: Originally posted by John D Harris: Skywalker don't shatter My illusion of you being a Yankee Democrat, There's so few I can converse with

Well John, I do tend to lean more towards the liberal side so if you want to think of me as a Yankee Democrat - feel free!

Just trying to help a friend out!

Mark[/QUOTE]Much ablieged (sp?)

[AzRaeL StoRmBlaDe]

I do anything television tells me to. I dont have a mind to think for my own, beyond what the TV tells me. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[Lord of Alcohol]

My sisters Martha Stewart, although she goes by a different name like Evil Greedy Nagging Bitch named Linda. Other than that she is ok. [img]smile.gif[/img] Errr what was this thread about? Oh yea my sister LOL

I Ignore all celebrity endorsements unless I know for a fact that the person uses the items...such as say Ted Nugent advertising Archery Equipment. I still wont buy something endorsed by a celebrity unless I have a need for the item as well [img]smile.gif[/img] It has to have quality and be durable...not like Michael Jordan using Nike, I mean he doesnt wear off the shelf Nike's he has specially fabricated high quality work, not the stuff you and I could buy.

[ 06-15-2002, 11:27 PM: Message edited by: MagiK ]

Originally posted by skywalker: Well, I did use martha Stewart as the hook for the question, but it certainly is not just about her products. I wonder how many kids (and adults) bought Air Jordans because og Micheal Jordan's name. I'm not so sure that a majority of people buy stuff because it's good or because a big star tells them to. If they don't, it's odd that the media paints us that way. One of my favorite actors is Harrison Ford. If he sold out(and I do believe endorsing products is selling out)and started hawking Chock Full O' Nuts coffee, I wouldn't just start buying it. I prefer Maxwell House. Now if there was a sale and the price was low, I'd buy a can of CFON coffee. If liked it, I might switch. But not because of Ford. I think the media really thinks we are just a bunch of lemmings! [img]tongue.gif[/img] Mark

No kidding about the media!
Have you seen the Michael Jordan commercial where he brings in a new style of Hanes underwear into the locker room every week and the guys there all have the same ones the next week? Its like he doesn't even work out, he just goes in, pulls the underwear out, makes sure they all see it, tucks them back in his gym bag and leaves!
That's insulting if you ask me.

Teens and young people are influenced by the media though, I mean look at the young executives and the young executive-wannabes....they wear Dokkers.
Teen sexy & glamourous? Calvin Clein
Gay? Tommy
Its all over and until people start thinking for themselves, it'll never end...but why should they when they have the media to tell them what to do and what to buy? (insert hurl here lol)

[Lady Avalon]

I never buy things based on a celebrity's backing. I definitely will go for a "great product."