Intrusive advertising is THE cornerstone of capitalism...

[GordonJ]

You are as much of an enigma to me as Glenn Osborn is to you. I just don't 'get' you. That being said.

The gulf oil spill as well as wall street meltdown WERE the result of OUR current free market capitalism which believes the golden rule of whoever has the gold makes the rules. And Gov't at all levels and in all Federal Bureaucracies is in collusion with or paid by "Capitalists".

There was a popular book in the 50's, None Dare Call it Treason. The saying is, "Treason does not prosper, for it prospers, none dare call it treason."

I'm a big believer in free enterprise and capitalism as you well know, but my point is, I'm not buying YOUR premise of the need to advertise in such a way, an INTRUSIVE way to "save capitalism".

What will save "capitalism" is NOT intrusive advertising...but a combination of factors, and advertising being only a part of the mix.

YES, it is necessary to promote products, but even when the ads come on for say, Hulu, we don't have to tune into them. In fact, the 30 seconds can be used for doing other things.

Gordon Jay Alexander

Hi Gordon...

I'm not saying ads must be made to be intrusive to save cap-ism. I'm saying intrusive ads have always been + will continue to be the cornerstone, driving force, behind cap-ism. Cap-ism cannot exist without intrusive ads. Further, it thrives to the extent that ads are intrusive -- and that has always been the case.

When you say, "those 30-secs can be spent doing something else," are you saying the advertisERs are stupidly wasting their zillions of $$$'s? That the intrusive ads 'system' is a myth, in terms of effectiveness? If so, I'm sure stockholders would be fascinated by that.

Also, if you don't like ads that are intrusive, why not remove your sig from your posts in this forum? Why doesn't the owner of the forum remove the banner ads? Wouldn't the exact same number of sales be made, with or without the intrusive sigs + banners? Or are the sigs + banners "successful" to the extent that they are intrusive (uninvited + use info about the viewer that the viewer never (willingly) "gave" to the marktER(s) -- contextual).

Whether the marketEE "wants" or doesn't want to be "marketed to," is irrellevent. That cannot be allowed to be part of the transaction equation. How many ads do you "want" to see on your favorite tv show? None, of course. Yet, the ads are what is paying for the show -- and it's NOT the advertisier who's paying -- it's the viewer(s) who pay, via buying the stuff that is advertised. For that to happen, the audience must be *forced* to pay attention to the ads. So, merely "ignoring those 30-seconds" makes the show (or yahoo news video) VANISH.

-- TW