Holiday Shopping False Advertising
Need a last-minute stocking stuffer? How about you buy a 40″ LED TV? AND PUT IT IN A STOCKING:
Seriously… it’s like advertisers don’t even care anymore. Soon, communication is going to deteriorate into just using buzzwords all the time. Now excuse me while I blog my app to curate something viral on social media… Google.
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About Cody Gough
Cody Gough is a podcast consultant and award-winning producer. He created, produced, hosted, and edited more than 1,000 episodes of Discovery's Curiosity Daily podcast, which received numerous industry awards during his tenure
As an established radio veteran, Cody spent more than a decade producing and hosting shows on Chicago's prestigious 720 WGN Radio. There, he helped launch the WGN Plus podcast network, where he hosted their first and only dedicated video game podcast, Game/Life Balance U.S. He has also led podcast strategy development for notable brands including NerdWallet, Tektronix, and the GonnaGeek Network. Cody is currently available for consulting work via Quantum Podcasts.
In addition to his audio industry experience, Cody has written for various outlets, including Curiosity.com and HuffPost. He's also a graduate of several improv programs in Chicago (including the Second City Conservatory) and has written and performed for a variety of theater, film, and web productions, as well as industrial/commercial videos.
You must realize by now that “Idiocracy” was truly prophetic and you just found another little example of the decline of civilization. What do you think about the Republican Circus? Is it careening down the slippery slope of our tendency to pander (also read that “market” or “advertise”) to the lowest common denominator of human intellectual capacity?