Comments on: Advertising on RTE

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:14:19 +0000

You could be right

“Unemployment was high, poverty widespread”

and who’s fault was that? FIANNA FAIL’s

By: Paul Cahill

Paul Cahill — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 13:52:10 +0000

You are looking back with hindsight. Around the time Prof. Quinlan (my late grandfather) wrote this the irish economy was in ruins. Unemployment was high, poverty widespread and these ads were encourgaging people to spend what little money on products for which they had no need.

Although it may now seem strange, back then it was a serious problem. Although with the amount of useless products bought in ireland each year, his arguement may well be perfectly valid today

By: donkykemore

donkykemore — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:51:39 +0000

I cant get my head round this Clairol ad.
Now thery’re doing it for the mens products
YOU’RE WORTH IT
Does that mean the person beside me is not worth it , or that only those of us who watch the ad are worth it . It must mean we are at least more it than others who havent yet had the wisdom and maturity to use the product.
But Tell me . Is Mars Harney Worth it . and if she is what is IT that she is worth .
Please no vulgarities to this rhetorical question.

By: Niall

Niall — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:15:29 +0000

Yeah, I’m not convinced that the chap didn’t have a point.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:53:59 +0000

I’m with you there!

By: Gordon Davies

Gordon Davies — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:41:59 +0000

Advertisers know that consumers acquire a critical attitude to their messages. Which is why advertising has grown increasingly sophisticated. Worryingly for advertisers, a proportion of the population is impervious to normal techniques.

Personally I think that Professor Quinlan made a good point. In Ireland and elsewhere a supply of cheap credit has, over the years, allowed many to purchase a lot of useless and inadequate junk.

Gordon

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:08:28 +0000

Yes Tom. Those old debates are great. People with principles our Founding Fathers were dacent min.

By: tom

tom — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:00:54 +0000

I think we should have listened to this chap.

Advertising is designed to make us miserable so we buy stuff. the end result is humanity on a treadmill and the environmental mess we find ourselves in.

By: Tomaltach

Tomaltach — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:41:11 +0000

My God Sarah, reading the 1960 Broadcasting Act. And Senate debates on same. Holy Christ. Christmas doesn’t do anything for you does it

By: P O'Neill

P O'Neill — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:13:58 +0000

Maybe that famous Fintan O’Toole column needs an encore — did Charlie see the fondue set advertised on RTE and from there his greed arose?