Bob McCarty Writes

Reboot Congress reports that a digital billboard ad (above) advocating “Democracy for Iran” has sprung up near the intersection of Manchester Road and Highway 141 in suburban Saint Louis.
I contacted DDI Media, the St. Louis-based company that owns the billboard, to find out who paid for the ad but ran into a temporary “roadblock” of [...]

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My oldest son, Matt, just returned from a two-week trip to China.  Along the way, he found evidence that Wal-Mart is everywhere.
While traveling through a small mountain town approximately 500 miles north of the country’s border with Vietnam, he spotted the “Wal-Mart is coming” billboard shown above.

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Winners of the 2009 CLIO Awards, one of the world’s most prestigious international advertising and design competitions honoring creative excellence and innovation in the industry, were announced today.  They recognize print, direct mail, radio, poster and billboard mediums, as well as the new strategic communications/public relations medium.  Below are three of the winning entries I [...]

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The United American Committee had a 48-foot-wide billboard* erected yesterday along I-75 in Luna Pier, Mich., about 10 miles north of Toledo and 20 miles south of Detroit.  It’s message (above):  SHARIA LAW THREATENS AMERICA.
Though I was unfamiliar with UAC until after reading this post today, I found myself in agreement with the message of [...]

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While watching coverage of the Democratic National Convention this afternoon, I learned that Barack Obama will deliver his nomination acceptance speech exactly 45 years to the day after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
Unlike Dr. King’s 1962 speech, which was delivered upon the steps of the Lincoln Memorial [...]

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