Sometimes Our Opinions Do Matter: Another Post about Meg Whitman Reminded Me.

[Mike 03]

Please don't think that your emails are in vain. Even though most of them are, I can tell you a few of mine that at least seemed to make a difference:

1. Arguing with Dennis Praeger over one of his "spots" where he bragged about knowing that if "you love your daughters enough they will not have eating disorders." I wrote to him in disagreement, and argued intelligently against him, and he wrote back and said he agreed, was sorry, and removed the advertisement/blurb where he said what he said.

2. I know this is lame, but I got angry at the new "Smokey The Bear" ads, because they were so sarcastic rather than informative or appealing to younger people, and they cancelled that ad campaign. Now, I am sure I was not alone in contacting them, but that is pretty weird, to get upset about Smokey The Bear ads because they are sarcastic, and have them changed.

3. Meg Whitman's adverts on a SoCal radio station. She was literally advertising five to seven times an hour on the feed from this prominent Southern California All News station, and when I complained, they dropped her ads, which stunned me. I know how much money she has, and she can afford to run ads on the moon. But they stopped running these horrific ads.

Thankfully, I am beginning to think what we say does have an impact.

Thanks for reading this.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. We gotta start someplace.......

[lazarus]

2. I've done it

years ago, HP (I think, are they the ones that merged with Compaq?) was running spots advertising their printers. The problem was, the spots were all based on how goofy and useless the husband/father was, and how the wife/mother had to go to extra lengths to keep him from screwing up the most basic tasks.

This was on the heels of a lot of similar advertising from other people, but it was so blatant, I had to email. I was very polite. Imagine my surprise when the head of marketing called me a couple of weeks later. Apparently, they struck a nerve, the online community was up in arms, and she was calling select people to explain that they were pulling the whole ad campaign.

[msongs]

3. all those tiresome ads on knx running every 5 minutes lol nt