From stayfree at metalab.unc.edu Mon Oct 9 16:23:19 2000 From: stayfree at metalab.unc.edu (Carrie McLaren) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 16:23:19 -0400 Subject: Stay Free! | 9 October Message-ID: NOTE: If you have friends who want to join this list, they should sign up at: http://franklin.oit.unc.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?join=stayfree instead of emailing me - - - - - - - - - Hello, Not much to report seeing as the website is currently in remission. But I do want to let you all about a few recent finds: "Truth in Advertising" Funny clip about the ad biz with lots of profanity. Highly recommended. http://www.gaijin.com/jwheatley/TruthInAd.mov "Army Enlists Hollywood to Help Harden its Soldiers" http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/10/02/fp2s2-csm.shtml A nice little barb in the debate about media violence A drug company finds the cure for acne....suicide! http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/public/accutane.html A harrowing item from last week's Wall Street Journal Subscribe to Stay Free! magazine for lots of stuff not on the website (paper, ink, stickers, issue #17, etc.): http://order.kagi.com/cgi-bin/r1.cgi?ZQL& - credit card http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/order.html - cash/check that's all, carrie From stayfree at metalab.unc.edu Mon Oct 30 22:29:55 2000 From: stayfree at metalab.unc.edu (Carrie McLaren) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 23:29:55 -0400 Subject: Stay Free! | 30 October Message-ID: The STAY FREE! website is still on vacation... meanwhile, elsewhere: "The New Politics of Consumption" http://bostonreview.mit.edu/ndf.html#Consumption You might have seen this in bookstores as _Do American's Shop Too Much?_ It's a short essay by Juliet Schor (more or less summarizing her highly touted _The Overspent American_), followed by critiques by James Twitchell, Robert Frank, and others. Schor seems bent on outlawing competitive consumption, and while I agree with her on many counts, the emphasis on consumption over commercialization strikes me as misplaced... plus her solutions can be a bit wacky. (A tax on luxury goods?)... some of the arguments here are fancier than they need to be. there are really only two problems with consumption -- one, consuming and selling increasingly dominate EVERYTHING, from schooling to healthcare (particularly in America). So it's not a problem of consuming itself so much as one of degree--and a lack of viable alternatives. And, two: the price of consuming goods should reflect their environmental and social costs. i.e. it's more expensive to buy recycled items and it should be other way around. ADFLIP "The world's largest searchable database of classic print ads," searchable by keyword, category (automotive, electronic, fashion, etc.), and decade (1940s to current). And don't forget Duke University's "Ad Access." http://www.adflip.com http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/ ATTN: CHIMP FANS! It has nothing to do with advertising or media but I am starting MONKEYWIRE, a new email list devoted to news about monkey and apes (for all primates). Monkeywire.org culls choice articles from traditional news services and emails them to subscribers a couple of times a week...sort of like an AP wire for simians. The list is low-traffic, usually 0-3 news items per week. To signup, see: http://franklin.oit.unc.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?join=monkeywire thanks, carrie ---------------------------------------------------- Stay Free! P.O. Box 306 Prince St. Station NYC 10012 --------------------------- www.stayfreemagazine.org