Those are interesting details and it clearly points out just what marketing is. And exactly why I no longer wish to be part of that domain!
The Catalog of Cool recommended (in the early 1980s) reading Advertising Age for a different perspective on the day’s events in the world (even war).
And while some people say that Obama is the Orwellian candidate, I say he is the Warholian POP candidate. His politics are Stalinist, but he’s been marketed as an icon (in name and graphic).