good job cbs... here are some other options: perhaps during the tienamen square uprising you could have put a backwards nike cap (just like tiger!) on the guy who stood in front of the tank. when that guy from columbine climbed out of the window all bloody perhaps he could have been wearing a t-shirt for a new bruce willis movie... the bottom line is we've been dealing w/ product placements for a long time already in hollywood (ET ate his reeses pieces, etc.) and w/ sporting events (tiger, etc.)... while this practice is unfortunate it is still ethically permissable as it is in the context of entertainment... sadly, there is an almost non-existant line today between entertainment and journalism and cbs' actions only prove that those lines dont matter too much anymore... if everyone can accept "journalism" w/ dramatic music and 're-enactments' as fact, then why should bogus advertising upset anyone... neither is a true representation of reality.
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mandatory vaios for everyone!!!
good job cbs... here are some other options: perhaps during the tienamen square uprising you could have put a backwards nike cap (just like tiger!) on the guy who stood in front of the tank. when that guy from columbine climbed out of the window all bloody perhaps he could have been wearing a t-shirt for a new bruce willis movie... the bottom line is we've been dealing w/ product placements for a long time already in hollywood (ET ate his reeses pieces, etc.) and w/ sporting events (tiger, etc.)... while this practice is unfortunate it is still ethically permissable as it is in the context of entertainment... sadly, there is an almost non-existant line today between entertainment and journalism and cbs' actions only prove that those lines dont matter too much anymore... if everyone can accept "journalism" w/ dramatic music and 're-enactments' as fact, then why should bogus advertising upset anyone... neither is a true representation of reality.