Marketing Blurb does not watch much television. But we do know from the show
promos that run during the evening news, that we are missing serious fun from
heinous sex crimes. So we are not surprised that if you advertise on television, your message is likely to appear before or after such fun. Here is what we learned from the Parents Television Council. The council criticized McDonald’s and Staples for advertising on the popular show
Medium. (We have never seen the show, but we do know this blond woman keeps awaking in a sweat from dreams about murders.) Here is what we missed on a recent episode of Medium: “PTC described the episode as containing "graphic depictions" of a man having sex with a prostitute, whose hands were tied to the bed, reaching orgasm and then murdering the prostitute by smothering her with a pillow.”
Advertising Age has more, (free registration required) but we’ve had enough. Don’t watch this kind of garbage. And if you buy television time on a show like this, what do you tell your children you do for a living?
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