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...same place where the hated NFC West rival Saints play. So it's a little like the Jets playing a Super Bowl in Miami or the Redskins playing for all the marbles in Dallas, right under Jerry Jones' nose. The Rams season-ticket holders will do their best peacock impressions, showing their colors for all the locals to see. Don't be surprised if those famous Bourbon Street 3-for-1 specials turn into 6-for-1's for anyone donning Patriots gear...
...says advertising has lost its impact? Media folks and moralists are all abuzz this week after NBC's decision to reintroduce liquor ads during last Saturday's airing of "Saturday Night Live." Citing a deteriorating advertising market, Peacock Network execs are reversing a 50-year-old voluntary ban on television commercials hawking hard alcohol. NBC's choice, the moral authorities among us believe, is a terrible and inevitable symptom of our decaying societal fabric. "The decision by NBC to accept advertising for liquor is shockingly irresponsible and should be reversed immediately," says Dr. J. Edward Hill, chair-elect...
...pretty diverse group of people.” Patrick J. Aber ’02 responded that “I don’t think you can really characterize them one way or another...there are really lots of different people involved in it.” James Peacock ’02 concurred: “I think they’re just pretty normal people” continuing “I don’t see them as extremists. they are people who have an agenda and a goal and I respect them for that...
...spokeswoman at the Peacock network told reporters, "Given that the White House did not request time on the network, we thought it was sufficient to cover the event on our cable networks." (CNBC and MSNBC will both broadcast the speech.) At CBS, there was some doubt as to the newsworthiness of the President's address. "Based upon what we've been told about the content, we feel that it's appropriate to cover it as a news event in our news coverage as opposed to live programming," a CBS spokeswoman told the Associated Press Thursday. For its part, ABC decided...
...money to show certain products onscreen, casually. (Advertisers of Shakespeare's day would have rejoiced in the opportunity to have Lady Macbeth, for example, tell her kitchen staff in the first act: "We are having royal guests tonight, and nothing will do for this occasion but Mrs. Browne's Peacock Pies...