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  • The Harry and Louise show

    The fictional couple who appeared in anti-Clinton ads are now in a new campaign.
    By Dena Bunis January 20, 2000

  • Diamonds are a lech's best friend

    Jewelry.com yanks one sexy ad after a group of angry fathers protests -- but its "toned down" replacement is pretty saucy.
    By Janelle Brown December 13, 1999

  • The name game

    Welcome to the vicious world of corporate name-creation, where $75,000 buys you a suffix and competing shops slur each other over the virtues of Agilent and Avilant.
    By Ruth Shalit November 30, 1999

  • Flu be gone!

    Two new anti-flu drugs just hit the market and will be backed by millions in advertising. But do they work?
    By Arthur Allen November 22, 1999

  • Gang land

    Can the same entertainment media that have popularized gang culture be used to combat gang-related violence? Plus: Men who collect penis bones; capital punishments throughout human history.
    By Jenn Shreve November 12, 1999

  • Rogue advertisers

    Who's to blame for trashy mags? Intestinal fatigue? Speak and others grapple with their demons. Plus: Embalming alternatives and Ikea obsession.
    By Jenn Shreve October 15, 1999

  • Pig in the Gulag

    An ad for the made-for-TV movie "Animal Farm" gives a whole new meaning to the word "Orwellian."
    By Gary Kamiya October 8, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Horowitz takes aim at wrong targets, and misfires. Plus: the bizarre world of advertising; do doctors always know best?
    Letters to the Editor October 4, 1999

  • Wine, it's the other red fluid

    Wine X's attempts at hipsterism evoke the not so subtle smell of oak barrel-aged fish. Plus: Geeks, freaks, fashion weeks and conspiracy theorists.
    By Jenn Shreve October 1, 1999

  • Why is Madison Avenue gripped by insanity?

    After pondering the "cultural meat values" of Peparami, the only question remaining is: What are these guys smoking?
    By Ruth Shalit September 29, 1999

  • Hypnotizing slackers for Starbucks, and other visionary acts of marketing research

    Through hypnosis, deconstructive theory and other advanced techniques, marketing experts have definitively established that champagne is associated with romance.
    By Ruth Shalit September 28, 1999

  • The return of the hidden persuaders

    Driven by a booming economy, a corporate obsession with brand-building and a feelgood philosophy, a motley crew of ex-grad students, starry-eyed admen and hypnosis gurus are probing the consumer unconscious to sell soap.
    By Ruth Shalit September 27, 1999

  • Why we should get rid of political advertising -- now

    A veteran adman says that it's time for ads to go back to doing what they do best: Selling kitty litter.
    By Bob Welke September 2, 1999

  • 21st Challenge No. 25

    Take this job and post it! Tech-style "help wanted" ads for the rest of us.
    By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau August 14, 1999

  • Microsoft to Web sites: Behave!

    Redmond says it will pull ads from sites that don't post strong privacy policies.
    By Kaitlin Quistgaard June 24, 1999

  • Budweiser: Bad for your waistline -- and bad for America

    Dick Morris is telling his clients to start running political-style hit attack ads. Here's Salon's exclusive look at the first crop.
    By Ruth Shalit June 14, 1999

  • Advertising stole my humanity!

    Capitalism is out of control with sexist ad execs, mix tapes by irrelevant hippies and the inevitable, horrible cloning of "The Bridget Jones Diary."
    By Jenn Shreve June 4, 1999

  • The ad from hell

    Can a company successfully sue an agency for making a commercial that really, really sucks? Stay tuned for a word from our courthouse.
    By Ruth Shalit May 28, 1999

  • TV to over-49s: You haven't dropped dead yet?

    Hey, Gramps! Want more TV shows aimed at you? Then stop watching them.
    By James Poniewozik May 27, 1999

  • The woman in the gray flannel Mao jacket

    After two months as an ad woman, Ruth Shalit surveys the historic depiction of her profession and decides she'd rather be a late-capitalist soul-snatcher than a cringing drunk or a thieving ho'.
    By Ruth Shalit May 11, 1999

  • The Web numbers game

    Everyone in the Web industry seems to agree that Media Metrix's numbers are incomplete. So why have they become a standard?
    By Kaitlin Quistgaard April 28, 1999

  • Little Caesars -- "Focus Group": Cliff Freeman & Partners, New York

    A Little Caesars pizza ad shows how focus groups have become an object of parody.
    By Ruth Shalit April 23, 1999

  • Out of focus

    A peep through the one-way mirror at that great American institution, the focus group, reveals a glittering lineup of cheaters, repeaters and sad sacks who wash their hair with Jell-O.
    By Ruth Shalit April 23, 1999

  • Kiddie pants or kiddie porn

    Nothing comes between kids and their Calvins --except charges of pedophilia.
    By Deborah A. Lott March 12, 1999

  • Log: Brief reports and tidbits from the info-sphere

    Amway joins the online multilevel marketing melee
    By Salon Tech Writers March 1, 1999
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