8.12.04
Lowbrow Lowdown Lookback
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Ask Not What Your Country Can Do for You
  but What You Can Buy in Your Country
In addition to offering commentary on marketing and its effects on culture and society, during the past four years, The Lowbrow Lowdown has acted as a quasi compendium of media coverage of advertising and marketing. And if there's one pet topic this column has featured, it's politics. The thing is, most current events coverage fails to provide historical context to the political news of the day. That's why, in keeping with the nation's vote-engrossed zeitgeist, The Lowbrow Lowdown Lackeys have been dredging up yesterday's tales that touch on both marketing and politics, as covered in these very Web pages.

As promised, here's the second installment of stories evincing the ever closer realms of politics, government and commercialism:



1.4.01
This Is Your Tax Money.
  This Is Your Tax Money on TV.
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Eat Yer Heart Out, Nancy
Drug addled TV execs get high from Office of National Drug Control Policy ad dollars:
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1.31.01
Rail Under Nader Radar
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Have Your Burger and Eat It Too?
Ralph Nader goes off the rails on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority gravy train:
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2.7.01
Doral Wants You
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Amber Waves of Tobacco
The American Lung Association decries R.J. Reynolds's obvious ploy to attract kids by appealing to their ultimate vice: patriotism. (OK, so it's not so political, but we couldn't resist.):
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2.28.01
Sodanistas Attack from the Left
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Cola-culture on Display
Sody-pop profiteers get dissed by the ad busting brigade:
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Read The Lowbrow Lowdown Lookback on Politics, Part I, Part III and Part IV.