my turn to discuss boston

i know this is late, but deal.

i'm a fan of faux-conspiracy theories. they're fun.

which is why the wheels in my brain went round and round when i read about the city of boston fining cartoon network, etc. 2million usd for the black box stunt.

now,for one thing, it would seem as though boston didn't really follow the president's homeland security protocol in communicating with other places. or maybe other places didnt follow protocol by communicating with boston. anyway, maybe boston didnt so much over-react, as under-react. because if *i* were a terrorist, i'd strike in the most innocuous fashion.
but then, i'm not a terrorist. (except in the way that i'm not "with bush & co. and therefore am against bush & co. - making me, by default, a terrorist.) but i'm digressing.

anyway, yah. drama. whoooeeeee drama.

or not?

i mean, i ended up not watching the superbowl. at all.
this means the only product i can tell you for a fact that was advertised during the game was snickers. and that's becaues of the drama over that theoretically homophobic commercial. (i didnt actually get to see the commercial in question. i'm currently jaded regarding the assessment of homophobia by (white) queers who like to overact and thus enable themselves to ignore their own damn hate issues.)

anyway, yes. i know bud lite and doritos and coke had ads. ok? because they always do. but that's not the point here. the point is all those companies paid 2 million+ US dollars an ad to reach an audience of my vague demographic - age, location, sex(/gender), income wise. and they failed. cartoon network had ongoing media attention which, had boston not (over)reacted, i might have been reminded about their potential for the awesome.

but now? now american teen hunger force is known even by little old ladies in pesacola.

you can't BUY publicity like cartoon network/athf got! (except of course when it's in the form of fines.)

ps. this is my conspiracy theory. so a fact like, say, the ratings after the incident not showing an increase in viewership is irrelevent.

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