Diatribe

I am sick to death of careful demographic-select, target-market, key-message bu****it advertising. I picked up a copy of the Economist today - an excellent business/current affairs weekly (as I now have so little time to catch up with the news it makes a good tube read). Opening up the magazine a two-page spread by an oil company in a desperate attempt to invest in moral collateral after years of plundering developing countries reserves. Ethics of oil co's aside, in the back of my head I was screaming **** off! I don't care. I paid for a magazine, I don't want to be advertised at.

If you're in marketing heed this - I don't want your 'content' rammed down my throat like you're feeding a pre-fois-gras duck. Thankfully, the internet provides some respite. If you're using firefox and are sick of flashing crap and "you're the millionth site viewer" trash embedded in the articles you'd like to read get the ad-block plugin - a one stop flashing-crap-wasting shop.