{"id":64909,"date":"2017-10-27T05:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64909"},"modified":"2017-10-26T21:45:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T02:45:15","slug":"64909","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64909","title":{"rendered":"The Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Should breakfast cereal art reflect reality \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/business\/2017\/10\/25\/kelloggs-replace-racially-insensitive-corn-pops-boxes-following-twitter-rant\/797911001\/\">the brown guy is the<\/a> janitor \u2013 or should it be fantasy, like every college publicity photo showing a perfect balance of beautiful people smiling for the camera on a beautiful sunny day?<\/p>\n<p>What is Kellogg\u2019s obligation: to teach children about the world that is, or to imagine a world that never was and never will be?<\/p>\n<p>I suppose there\u2019s a third possibility.\u00a0 It\u2019s possible their obligation is to sell breakfast cereal to make money.\u00a0 If that were the case, marketing should use whatever imagery motivates customers to buy the product.\u00a0 Anything less would be a breach of their obligation to their shareholders.<\/p>\n<p>In the olden days, a syndicated columnist often advised readers \u201cMind Your Own Business.\u201d \u00a0Still good advice.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I pretty much just make eggs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Should breakfast cereal art reflect reality \u2013 the brown guy is the janitor \u2013 or should it be fantasy, like every college publicity photo showing a perfect balance of beautiful people smiling for the camera on a beautiful sunny day? What is Kellogg\u2019s obligation: to teach children about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64911,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64909\/revisions\/64911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}