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From: root@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: HATE HATE HATE HATE...
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Date: Wed, 15-May-85 11:04:13 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 15 11:04:13 1985
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No what I hate?  Some slick marketing campaign that depicts young,
active people going ape shit over product frobnitz, as if it were the
greatest joy of their lives.

How can ANY ad agency claim that "young people across America are
switching to the NEW and IMPROVED taste of diet frobnitz...  The new
frobnitz that's taking America by storm!" when the product has barely
hit the shelves?

Because people won't buy a product unless everyone else is buying
it...  the gutless slime... and sharp ad agencies capitalize on this
with their polished and appealing images.  These images, however, are
not a reflection of reality, but a reflection of the manipulative
attitudes of modern day marketing.

No what else I hate?

Strawberry Shortcake (tm)
Care Bears (tm)
My Little Pony (tm)
Cabbage Patch Kids (tm)
Cabbage Patch Kids Koosas (tm)

	... and He-Man (tm).

This muscle-bound, blond-haired sissy couldn't fight his way out of
a wet paper bag.  What is the moral we are taught every
time He-Man "defeats" some evil guy?  That evil lives to do evil
tomorrow and He-Man goes to all this trouble for nothing.

What a whimp!

Those simpering liberal whiners at Action for Childern's Television
have so sterilized and cleansed children's programming that kids will
now grow up with no concept of what good, evil, pain or conflict is.
No blood.  No gore.  No loss.

And to add insult to injury we are force-fed a moral at the end of the
show, complete with flash-backs.  Oh so neat and tidy it all is!  See
kids, how He-Man wraps everything up in only 30 minutes?!  This concern
for the outward appearence of television with no concern for the
content presented is the worst thing to happen to programming in the
last 40 years.

It's a canned morality play with the subtlty of a lead brick and the
substance of a box of kleenex.

Gee... When I was young I only had some blocks to play with.  What
fun it was trying to pound the square peg into the round hole!
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