May 27, 2005
FOUR FOR FRIDAY
Q1: Do you search for and use grocery store coupons? Why or why not?
Q2: With respect to your friends--close or otherwise--do they tend to be the same age as you, younger than you, or older than you? Excluding relatives, blood or otherwise, what's the biggest difference in age between youself and your oldest or youngest friend?
Q3: Within the last couple of weeks, General Motors, Morgan Stanley, and British Petroleum have all instituted policies which demand that newspapers, magazines, and web sites from which they have purchased advertising space, inform them in advance of any text or visual images they plan to publish that directly mention their company's name, a competitor's name, or in BP's case, the oil-and-energy industry. In short, these companies want the opportunity to pull their advertisements from media outlets on days when less than positive editorial coverage may be coming their way. How do you feel about this? Since most media outlets rely on paid advertising as their primary source of revenue, should advertisers, in essence, be allowed to be dictate which editorial content publishers can or cannot print? Or, since publishers charge an arm and a leg for the advertising space to begin with, not to mention that it's the advertiser's money that's being spent, is this sort of practice basically okay?
Q4: Would you ever answer your cell phone if it rang while you were in a public restroom? What if you were in the privacy of your own bathroom at home... would you answer it then?
Posted by Mikal at May 27, 2005 12:01 AM
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1. No--it's a mixture between laziness and not buying products that have coupons. If they began making coupons for lettuce and grapes, maybe I'll start collecting coupons.
2. Most of my friends are about the same age as me. But this may be an artifact of being a student. If people are over 5 to 7 years older, I start seeing them as authority figures rather than friends.
3. No, advertisers should not get the right to dictate media content even if they are being charged an arm and a leg. If they're so afraid of negative press, then they shouldn't buy the ads in the first place. I'm sure the media will find other companies that will put up ads.
4. Depending on the caller, no, public or otherwise. Surely the caller will understand that some times are inconvenient. If it's an emergency, then it doesn't really matter where you take the call.
No, I usually donít. I find that the coupons are mostly for item I donít normally buy. However I do shop for items on sale and if I can store them.
They used to be all me same age, all white middle aged friends from my high school days. But now that I came out of the closet my friend vary in age from mid-thirties to mid-sixties, Iím mid-fifties. They also vary in ethnicity.
No, they should not be allowed to dictate editorial content, itís a form of blackmail. If they are trying to do that then I think the newspapers should run articles about the fact that this is happening.
But, this is the real world, so the newspapers will cave in to the pressure.
It depends on what the call is about. Last week my father was in the hospital and I it was a life or death situation, I would have answered that call anywhere.
1) no.. to much time involved.
2) Same age mostly
3) I think it's very shaddy. If the media outlet is beg enough they should jsut say "no"... we don't NEED your ad. YOur competitors will take the space.
4) No. I don't even talk to myself in there. :)
1. I'll look, but I rarely find many that I can use unless it's stuff like aluminum foil. I try to eat healthy, and there's not really many coupons for healthy food out there
2. There's a variety, but alot of them tend to be younger. I think the biggest age difference is about 22 years.
3. It's pretty cheesy. Advertisers who want that kind of editorial control ought to be told to take a hike. If enough of the large media companies do this, the advertisers will soon get the point.
Heck no. I've had people pick up in the bathroom when I'm the caller, and I'm always appalled to hear the toilet flush (or worse) in the background.
1. Not much. I only use them at places like Bed, Bath and Beyond because I get tons of them in my mailbox for 20% off.
2. My friends range in age from my age to over 50. It's nice to have friends of all ages and backgrounds.
3. No. If they want to advertise then they shouldn't be such babies about it.
4. I don't have a cell phone. But I'd almost always answer the phone anywhere if it was urgent. When I was a kid, my friend's mother had a phone in the bathroom. An actual wall phone. We used to go in there and play with it, and got in trouble because sometimes her mom would be on the other line or need to make a call.
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