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...book, you talked a lot about anti-consumerists, calling them them 'buy scolds' and 'ad bashers'. Do you agree? Do you think advertising agents are as nefarious as some people make them out to be? Anti-consumer groups do have a point, but they assume that we are defenseless as consumers, and that we don't see through advertising as well as we do. I think most people do see through it, if only because advertising is just so ubiquitous. If nothing else, I think that the advertising community has hurt itself by putting out so many...
...what do we pay attention to? People we know. Other customers. Most companies that have put uncensored and unfiltered user reviews on their websites have found that it doesn't hurt business at all. I think a lot of companies are finding that they are far better off by letting people talk openly. That becomes much more of a deciding factor in a consumer's decision to buy than a commercial...
...think we'll ever go back to previous overwrought spending? Not for a while. I think things are going to get better, but I think there has been a fundamental change in people's heads. We are not going to stop buying, but we may not shop to the degree we did in the past. I really think we are going to be more measured for the foreseeable future...
...organizations and individuals to cut carbon emissions 10% in 2010, actually cast her ballot for Johnson's rival, Ken Livingstone, in last year's election. But after Johnson's daring rescue, she told the British daily Guardian, "If you find yourself down a dark alleyway and in trouble, I think Boris would be of more use than...
...wacky, jovial authenticity that plays well on television. Johnson is something of a star of the small screen, a veteran of game shows as well as serious news programs. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown disparaged Johnson in a recent interview with Piers Morgan in GQ, saying, "I don't think people want politicians to be some sort of subset of the entertainment business." Polls of Londoners and Conservative grass-roots voters suggest that's not entirely true of Boris. A poll of London voters taken this spring, a year after Johnson moved into City Hall, found 46% to be satisfied...