Wednesday, February 16, 2011

POW #3 No surprise here, this is also late

So I was sitting here watching SpongeBob SquarePants on Nickelodeon and Spongebob and Patrick stole a balloon and are now at large criminals. I was completely invested in this episode when it suddenly broke to commerical which sent me into a rage of fury that I unleashed upon my ham sandwich that I had crafted for myself not fifteen minutes prior. After I had calmed myself down, I brought my gaze back upon the television and there was a Cheez-It commercial on. They had one roll of Cheese that made a joke, one that kept interrupting the poor doctor analyzing it, and one that told the tale of how he invested in his 401k. I thought that they used propaganda in this commercial because they claimed to let their cheese "mature," which is physically not possible. They are obviously trying to trick people into thinking that their cheese is somehow better than say, Cheeto's cheese. Which I personally disagree with. Cheeto's are delicious. But back to the topic, I do not believe them because for starters cheese can not talk so how do they know when it is mature? Second, what makes their cheese any better than the competitors? Finally, they said that "real cheese matters," I can guarantee that they do not use 100 percent cheese in their product. There has to be some kind of artificial flavoring in there because real cheese would be too expensive. Think of all the cows they would have to buy! All in all I would have to say that this is a poorly constructed commercial and a pathetic attempt at imposing their cheese propaganda on the world.

1 comment:

  1. Ryan,
    You are a creative and funny writer. Your posts are fun to read. Good job on this assignment.

    All you are missing is what particular propaganda technique they are using.

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