Media Bites - Holiday Consumption

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Uploaded by on Dec 14, 2009

This weeks Media Bites takes a look at several holiday commercials from Overstock.com, Target and Toyota. In each commercial viewers are lured by traditional holiday music and scenery. We are even seduced by childhood memories of what it was like to open presents on Christmas morning. Ultimately these commercials want us to believe that consumption equals happiness. A good resource that critiques this myth is the documentary, The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Dont Need.

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  • Cracked.

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  • Has it occurred to you that if a single year had gone without all that dreaded capitalistic crap going on, that by itself would haved fed thousands of starving children in Sudan...?

  • LOL! Maybe Santa doesn't need any help doing Santa's job!

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