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Advertising Watch Photo February 6, 2012

Pussycats in the Clouds: Go Daddy Paints Super Bowl 2012

The visuals remind us that on Super Bowl Sunday, the only thing that viewers consume more of than chips and beer is women’s bodies.

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Business Focus Photo February 5, 2012

Fly United

The supposedly outrageous Business Week cover of two planes humping. ... actually, been there, done that?

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Advertising Watch Photo February 4, 2012

Matthew’s Day Off: Or, Why 2012 Super Bowl Ads Drowning in Nostalgia

In the Super Bowl ad nostalgia of 2012, corporations and advertising people they employ are working hard to convince us that things in this decade aren’t so different from the past fifty or so years. ...Funny why that is.

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Campaign '12 Photo February 3, 2012

Your Turn: Felix Romney

Some take-aways on the National Journal's Mitt/Newt Odd Couple cover.

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Culture Focus Photo February 2, 2012

Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Acceptance in One Photo

You have to read the caption to understand the situation, but once you do, you get a glimpse of how real-life America has incorporated what the media feels is outside the norm.

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Combining Children with Scare Tactics in Georgia’s Anti-Obesity Campaign

The ads consciously manipulate feelings of guilt and fear in an effort to capture attention. The only question is, whose attention are they trying to get?

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Campaign '12 Photo

Romney Cutting it Up With the Hispanics

...And yeah, let's hold all the jokes on "self-deportation."

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Campaign '12 Photo February 1, 2012

Stephen Crowley’s Extraordinary Photo of Santorum at an African-American Church

Hopefully Rick, you and your friends will think twice next time about all the food stamp baiting.

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