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August 5, 2009

Target: We Own You

WAPO ombudsman catches Living section having photoshopped Target logo onto hipster's arm.

You’re our fan. You’re our plunger. You’re our bright idea. You’re our bull’s eye….

Maybe there’s no connection, but the fact the WAPO Living section photoshopped this Target tattoo onto this fetching hipster’s arm (without any caption or notice on-line) is all too reminiscent of the recent salon fiasco. The original story involved the all-too-indy neighborhood of Columbia Heights supposedly succumbing, in spite of itself, to Target-mania.

… Sounds like corporate guerilla marketing in the end stage. We own every last one of you — and the media can (ap)prove it.

(h/t: Raleigh)

(photo illustration: Patterson Clark)

  • jaydenver

    Target: We own pwn you. Fixed.
    Or how Wyeth paid ghostwriters to produce favorable articles for their drug therapies which “reputable” authors submitted under their own name to medical journals.
    And on the photoshopping theme (I like the tie-in with Target), try reading Edgar Martins’ defense of his altered photos in the NY Times Lens blog.
    Sappho said it best a 1,000 years ago: If you have a queasy stomach, don’t look under the rock.

  • http://justbetweenstrangers.blogspot.com/ acm

    I think you want to lowercase “Salon” — I thought it was a scandal at Salon, rather than a scandal about Washington Post salons…
    and yes, this kind of product placement is creepy. one imagines that “Minority Report” got a lot of predictions right…

  • jaydenver

    Oops — 2,500 years ago for Sappho. How time flies.

  • Gasho

    If this chick didn’t give permission for that photoshopped logo, then she should sue the hell out of WAPO and Target.

  • yg

    when did target start selling weed?

  • lp

    lol – i know that chick.  she didnt.  oh well.

  • lp

    lol – i know that chick.  she didnt.  oh well.