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October 24, 2001
Lori
Allen
Life
in an Occupied Land
During Wartime
Peter
Swire
New
Anti-Terrorism Bill
Poses Old Risks
Irina
Malenko
A
Non-Western Voice
David
Vest
Welcome
to Web Hell
Patrick Cockburn
Battle
of Mazar Gets Nasty
October 23, 2001
Steve
Perry
Anthrax,
Cipro and the Bailout of Bayer
Carl
Estabrook
Just War
or
The Rule of Lawlessness?
Patrick
Cockburn
Errant
Bombs at Bagram
George
Monbiot
War
and Oil
Robert
Jensen
Crushing
Academic Dissent
October 22, 2001
Hamit
Dardagan
The
New Newspeak
Tom
Turnipseed
War
on the Poor
Patrick Cockburn
Killing
Mullah Omar's Child
David
Vest
The
War on Women
Shepherd
Bliss
Advice
from a Vietnam Vet
Hani
Shukrallah
Capital
Strikes Back
October 21, 2001
Donald
Rumsfeld
The
al-Jazeera Interview
Mark
Scaramella
Nuclear
Anxiety
October 19, 2001
Mohammed
Sid-Ahmed
Bush's
Palestinian State
Michael
Colby
A
Mailroom Manifesto
October 18, 2001
Mahajan
and Jensen
Avoiding
a New Cold War
Patrick
Cockburn
US
Planes Pound Taliban
Jamey Hecht
Gerald Ford
and the CIA
Mokhiber
and Weisman
3
Arguments
Against This War
October 17, 2001
Ballinger
and Marsh
Music
and War Resistance
Steve
Perry
The
Anthrax Chronicles
Chris
Kromm
Operation
Infinite Disaster
Susan
Block
Sex
Not Bombs
David Vest
Osama Speaks
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October 25,
2001
Companies Cash in on Patriotism
By Sarah Turner
In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks,
Madison Avenue wasted little time devising ways to draw customers
to their products. Some of these efforts have bordered on the
unseemly.
United Airlines is running
a commercial about a firefighter who boarded a recent flight.
The advertisement says that once the crew found out there was
a firefighter on board, they placed him in first class and the
captain announced, "There's a hero on board." The commercial
ends with the sentence, "People are getting back on board
United."
A Chevrolet commercial shows
dramatic scenes of firefighters before a shot of a Chevy cruising
down a scenic highway. The advertisement ends by flashing the
patriotic words, "Keep America Moving."
Even Lee jeans has gotten in
on the action. A Lee doll is featured in a commercial with a
Band-Aid on his arm and a Red Cross sticker that says, "I
gave blood."
In a radio ad, Toys-R-Us encourages
parents to bring their children into the store to color a flag.
The Food Network is running
promotional commercials to encourage people to cook together
to relieve stress and to watch their programming. The ad states,
"We're all feeling a little overwhelmed, but we have to
keep going."
Newcastle Beer has advertising
posters in bars that say, "Drink Newcastle to help the victims
of Sept. 11."
This type of ad is now a common
corporate tactic. The consumer is told that part of the company's
profits will be donated to a Sept.11 relief fund. Corporations
should not prey on Americans' desire to help the victims' families
by turning the tragedy into an advertising ploy.
The New York Stock Exchange
is now running commercials that end with, "Let Freedom Ring."
Its associating the civil right's movement with the bell that
ends each day's market speculation.
These ads want us to associate
patriotism with consumerism. But there is something tawdry about
it all, as when fast food chains like Arby's and McDonalds place
"God Bless America" on their outdoor signs right above
"99 cent Double Cheeseburger Special."
Many of the very corporations
that are showing this fake patriotism are the ones that are undermining
the foundation of American democracy. In each new election cycle,
corporations spend millions of dollars in campaign contributions
and on lobbyists to push their pro-business agenda in Washington.
These ads demean the memory
of the more than 5,000 people who lost their lives on Sept. 11.
CP
Sarah Turner is a weekly opinion columnist for
the Daily Cardinal, a student newspaper at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, and an intern at the Progressive Media Project.
She can be reached at pmproj@progressive.org.
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