Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 25, 2011

Good answer, Pop

He’s got a real future as a Congresswoman … an ad exec … the head football coach at Ohio State …

Don’t worry, Danae, when you go for your MBA, they’ll thoroughly excise any hint of ethics that may be hiding in the depths of your soul…

Ethics in advertising… ethics of advertising? Ethics?advertising

That’s where the truth lies.

95% of readers found this strip hilarious! (Based on a sample group of 10 people drawn from Wiley Miller’s family)

I put forth an idea in undergrad accounting.I was told I would go to jailI put forth the same idea in grad schoolI was told I would be successfulDoes Philo 101 have any place in the REAL world?Is half more or less?Is truth subjective or objective?Will the bottom line be affected.Will she respect mu honesty or her new BMW?Need we ask these questions?

must be summer vacation for wiley, this is a rerun i have it stuck to a bulletin board. still good though

Oxymoron: Business Ethics……

I see advertising, politics, and human nature have a lot in common.

Yeah, advertising and politics – very similar!

I can’t say I enjoyed my Marketing classes. The clashed with my Business Ethics class. I do not pick up the phone for tele-marketers and I will not watch commercials.

Business, Politics, and Religion They all tell you lies and then take your money.

So we have an advertising firm in the White House.

Whole lie= chain email subject.

some are born of small detail, and some are purely fiction.

Re: the poll95%?? From 10 people? I guess one of them found it “half” funny…

You cant handle the Truth, let alone a half-truth!!

Media types seldom lie, but rarely tell the truth.

Two half-truths still equal a big lie.

Advertising is only false if it doesn’t sell?

They have Business Ethics classes? I remember my journalism ethics classes could be reduced to “see if they ever wrote a letter to the editor because the Supreme Court ruled that short of producing a memo showing actual malice, anyone who ever ‘sought public notoriety’ could not prevail in suing for liable.”

Thus the Dalla Snooze could claim an on-the-ballot candidate was not running when he was, with total immunity, and the reporter who repeated it after being corrected could still get on the Rachel Maddow show as an expert on Rick Perry.

Problem with half-truths is that you have to remember what you said, much the same with whole lies. So watching some commericals can be fun if from the same company.

When Danae inevitably crashes and burns, daddy will be there to pick up the pieces and give them a decent burial.

Danae needs to take a more fundamental approach to the problem:Never go into advertising if you are at all concerned about ethics.

…and the truth rears its ugly head…