McCain will Cost Media and Ad Business Billions

A "Media Expert" posted an entry to HuffingtonPost purporting to be concerned about mccain's proposal to eliminate military recruitment advertising on TV.

What it really was - and you can read it for yourself to see where I'm coming from - was a bemoaning of lost ad revenue for the media cartels.

Boo-freaking-hoo. The below was rejected by the censor or author.

Screw the media. And screw your vacuous 'buggy whip' inferences.

Broadcast advertising is driven by economic realities. Your comments imply that we need to make sure their coffers are being filled. Guess what? If they don't have the money to pay a "star" $500k per episode for some brain-sucking TV show, then they will have to do what anyone else in the business in the real world does - renegotiate to lower and control costs, or go under.

Also implicit in your piece is a sanctimonious ideal about military recruiting over broadcast media. I majored in Business and worked for a few years in a marketing group and socialized in those circles many years back. The major life lesson I got from that (only to be reinforced countless times in the interim) is that marketing "professionals" are afflicted in very high percentages with soaring delusions of grandeur - not only on a personal basis, but wholly revering in a creepy, bizarre way, an absurd belief that if it weren't for marketing "professionals," society will implode. As if one couldn't possibly figure out how to get their grubby, unwashed claws on some canned peaches without the miracle of marketing "professionals."

This prevailing attitude is as disturbing as it is absurd. Nonetheless, it flourishes.

Maybe you're not one of them and maybe I'm reading too much into your post. But it's hard to not see you fitting snugly into the image because I can't think of too many people outside of marketing "professionals" who'd get misty over the idea of seeing MORE $billions of pharmaceutical money - that could otherwise be used to LOWER drug costs for 10s of millions of Americans - getting burned at the altar of advertising.