Did you hear? McDonalds is eagar to help out Katrina victims!

[Deja Q]

Then, Donald, STFU and JUST DO IT. Don't spend millions of dollars for a fuckin' tv commercial when that money could better serving the victims DIRECTLY?

Anybody know how much a tv commercial costs to make and then air? It used to be something like $1 million, on average... How much is it these days?

[Bucky]

1. about 300,000 meals for the needy. Give or take.

[Deja Q]

2. A nice amount, but did you SEE their commercial? And as for numbers,

It wasn't a shoddy, shoestring budget quick-whip'me'up, it was a very polished piece. And a piece of **** it is too.

I don't care how many 70-cent hamburgers they handed out. To spend a huge sum of money on promoting their shameless ego (oh, you never answered my question as to how much MONEY they'd spent to make the commercial) is stupid and a sheer waste. PR pablum.


I donated too. (should I make a big-ass post in GD saying how great I am? You tell me what will appease you.)

Yes, I know there are needy and I am glad people are helping. But let's sit down and analyze some of these related issues instead of implying I'm some heartless twonk and you're better than the rest of us, okey-doke? x(

Indeed, doesn't it occur to you that the amount of money spent on their self-promotion could have provided at least 1,428,571 more hamburgers? :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: (if the commercial was just $1 mil total, and at 70 cents per hamburger... and 70 cents is the street price to the last of my knowledge, so the wholesale/cost price would be rather less which means we could easily DOUBLE that amount and hand out 3 million. (okay, a hamburger isn't a meal but even adding in the Pepsi and all that, it HARDLY gets whittled down to 300,000.)