Posted on 09/06/2018 7:31:55 AM PDT by Liberty7732
The problem with FR is that it can become an echo chamber where everyone thinks that anyone on the left who supports various causes is like a bubble headed college age SJW. That's just not the case; everything (other than say vanity media pubs like WAPO) is intentional and calculated to increase sales/profits.
Secondly, as to your/Whitlock's point about defending their existing low-cost production, that is *always* a secondary concern of marketing/media driven companies. Nike's mark-up percentage over baseline costs is similar to Coca Cola's - maybe 5% (if that). Everything else is marketing and sales. What if there input/labor costs were to double or even treble? It wouldn't make any difference really since the big ticket expenditures are spending $billions on image ads to induce purchases.
Once again, I suggest people sometimes drop the politics for politics angle, and entertain the idea that politics can be exploited as just another advertising campaign. Not saying Nike will pull it off, that's why the curtain opens. But it is definitely well thought out and executed.
The gratuitous bashing of Tim Tebow, and equating him with Kaepernick, is obnoxious.
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Corporations like Facebook, Twitter, Levi Strauss, Nike, etc are all joining the establishment side in persuading Americans to accept their agenda. Those that don’t accept will be first marginalized, then persecuted and driven from polite society jobs, activities, and communications.
Oh, that’s tonight? Thanks, I’ll be watching that then. I hope someone does an article tomorrow, who got more viewers, the NFL’s opening night or Donald Trump’s rally. Puuuuuuurrrrrfect!!
New Balance is a better product anyway.
I wouldn’t watch anything on Sling Orange or Sling Blue. Cannot support 90% of those channels.
Nike backed Tonya Harding too... and the nutty shoe sniffer... this isn’t their first ‘slap in the face’ to decent Americans:
http://adage.com/article/news/nike-thin-ice-harding-ploy/88550/
Nike has had more turnovers than the Buffalo Bills lately.
First, its major benefactor, Michael Jordan, retires and then jumps to another sport where the players wear cleats. Then Nike runs the inexplicable Dennis Hopper “crazed referee” ads extolling the virtues of sniffing shoes.
Then we have the Tonya Harding affair.
When Bob Garfield wrote, in his usual forthright manner, that the Hopper spots for Nike might be a mite insensitive to people with mental and emotional problems, most of our readers thought Bob was hopelessly out of it (”Bob Garfield needs to loosen his tie-it’s strangling his abi ity to recognize an ad that hits its audience,” read one).
Bob didn’t realize that it’s simply Politically Incorrect to criticize anything coming out of Nike’s ad agency, Wieden & Kennedy (just as it’s Politically Incorrect to criticize anything coming out of the entire state of Oregon).
Nike’s $25,000 grant to Tonya Harding is a great example of not only bad timing but also bad PR. The young woman already had admitted to knowing persons close to her were responsible in the attack on rival skater Nancy Kerrigan right after it happened, so at the very least she’s guilty of a cover-up (didn’t that almost get President Nixon impeached?) And isn’t a cover-up “due process” enough for the U.S. Olympic Committee to kick her off the team?
If they really wanted to help black lives maybe they could open some factories in the inner cities of the US and employ Americans.
“Just Screw It.”
Like millions upon millions of former fans we staunchly refuse to support an organization that habitually spits on our country, our flag, our vets and in our faces.
The national felon league can rot!
BOYCOTT THEM TO HELL!
Of course they could... but THAT would cost actual money.
/SARC
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