It’s time for our local paper, the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, and other publications to stop advertising guns. This is the rock-bottom minimum that can be done to end the glorification of guns and senseless proliferation of gun violence in society.…
Category: Marketing
The dangers of June Fellhauer’s 2018 talk by Caroline Leaf, promoted by District 51
Local self-styled Christian missionary June Fellhauer is back in 2018 and this time, her unregistered nonprofit Wake Up Ministries sponsored a talk at Two Rivers Convention Center on January 12 by Dr. Caroline Leaf, another Christian missionary. Caroline Leaf labels…
The G.J. Sentinel hawks cheap handguns while wishing readers “a safe and happy holiday”
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel ran a big ad in it’s Thanksgiving Day paper selling handguns for cheap while on it’s Facebook page it simultaneously wishes readers a “safe and happy holiday.” Many area residents would consider the ad alone…
Hundreds of Business Owners Go Public with Support for Amendment 70, the Minimum Wage Increase
Business owners across the state are lining up to support Amendment 70, which would raise Colorado’s minimum wage to $12.00 and hour by 2020. Many of these owners voluntarily raised their own employees’ wages and are telling the public about the impacts it has had…
Organized Effort to Undermine Mulder for Commissioner’s Campaign?
The race for Mesa County Commissioner in District 1 is heating up, and someone in Happy Valley is playing dirty. Some unknown person has been stealing County Commissioner District 1 candidate Mel Mulder’s hand-made campaign signs. Mel, his wife, Vera, their friends and high…
Colorado West Outdoor Advertising’s Big “Oops”!
New Group Offers Businesses a Less Costly Networking Alternative
Local business owners no longer have to pay the Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce’s high membership fees if all they really want is a convenient and inexpensive way to network regularly with other businesses. Network Now is a new Grand Junction business networking group…
The Marlboro Train: The Biggest Promotion on Earth That Never Happened
Marlboro Train (2007) from Marty Otañez on Vimeo. Philip Morris’ “Project Thunder” was public relations plan to construct and operate a wildly-luxurious, custom-built 20-car Marlboro train as a promotion for Marlboro cigarettes. The train was to consist entirely of double-decker…
Hypocritical Establishment of the Day: Cafe Rio on Patterson Road
At the Cafe Rio in Grand Junction, the women’s restroom has a sign urging patrons to try their new, super-duper hand blow-drier. The sign tries to appeal to people’s sense of environmental responsibility by saying, “Let’s save our world [by using]…
Target Apologizes for Phallic Star Wars Toys
Target Stores apologized to a customer who noticed some rather phallic Star Wars toys in her local store. A woman named Joni Jones from Indiana sent a note to Target last week on the retail chain’s Facebook page along with photos she took of “Star…
Yuck!
Pope Toaster Marketed to Celebrate Pope Francis’ Upcoming U.S. Visit
A Pennsylvania company called Fireworks is celebrating Pope Francis’ upcoming U.S. visit by marketing a specially-designed toaster that burns the image of Pope Francis onto your sliced bread. The Toaster comes with and an additional insert that toasts the words…
U.S. Military Members Under Pervasive Pressure from Christian Evangelists
Few people are aware of the extent of the fundamentalist Christian programs now going on in the U.S. Military aimed at turning our country’s Military into a global Christian mission for Jesus Christ. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), based in Albuquerque, New Mexico…
Hastings Wants Students to Decompose
A Look Back: Philip Morris and the 1969 Movie “Cold Turkey”
In August, 1969 all of the citizens the town of Greenfield, Iowa (pop. 2,100) attempted to quit smoking as a publicity stunt in connection with the on-site filming of the movie Cold Turkey, starring Dick Van Dyke. In an internal project…
Atheist Billboard Graces I-70 Business Loop at Easter
A new digital billboard is up on I-70 Business Loop in Grand Junction, Colorado, supports people who don’t believe in God by reassuring them that they’re not alone. The board was put up by Western Colorado Atheists and Freethinkers (WCAF), the area’s first…
Sam’s Club or Scam’s Club?
Beware of Tricks at Local Grocery Stores
Last summer I picked up two raw chickens on sale at City Market, put one in the freezer and the other on the smoker for dinner. When it was done and I cut into it, the chicken oozed a milky-looking…