{"id":11558,"date":"2020-06-02T22:56:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T06:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=11558"},"modified":"2020-06-02T22:56:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T06:56:24","slug":"i-cant-breathe-ads-on-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/i-cant-breathe-ads-on-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"I Can\u2019t Breathe Ads On TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today a ton of media companies decided to run this video ad that went on for eight minutes and forty-six seconds. It was mostly sound effects of a person breathing where at the same time there was text saying \u201cI can\u2019t breathe.\u201d This is supposed to be a reflection of the George Floyd incident where a police officer had his knees on his neck for over eight minutes as he struggled to breathe and eventually passed away.<\/p>\n

The aired on a lot of networks including Nickelodeon which is of course meant for kids. So while a lot of people see this as a good thing for awareness there were many people were outraged as they felt this was in a sense showing something violent and horrible to kids. It made me think of the topic I posted recently about how if you are a business would you automatically support a cause you believe in even if it makes a certain amount of users upset to the point where you may lose business.<\/p>\n

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In these cases the companies definitely went ahead with it. I think one of the key thing here is companies were on the same page I guess you could say which makes it easier for them to implement. It probably did cost them a lot of money but during these times I think it\u2019s justified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today a ton of media companies decided to run this video ad that went on for eight minutes and forty-six seconds. It was mostly sound effects of a person breathing where at the same time there was text saying \u201cI can\u2019t breathe.\u201d This is supposed to be a reflection of the George Floyd incident where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[786,5953,7607,2107],"class_list":["post-11558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-ads","tag-business","tag-geroge-floyd","tag-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/breathe.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-30q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11561,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11558\/revisions\/11561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}