Author Archives: Kenyatta Blue

The ‘Joke’s On Us

This is very telling of how many of us see the proposed bailout of Wall Street…and it happens to be funny to. Check out the usage of President George Bush in the scene.

Letterman to McCain – “F*ck You!”

Late night talk show host and brilliant comedian, Dave Letterman rips Senator John McCain for canceling his appearance on the Late Show With David Letterman at the last minute, to play “politics around the economy.”
Beautiful. Just Beautiful.

Advertising Agencies and Diversity – Part 2

 
 
 
 
 
While the crisis on Wall Street has most people eyes glued to the television or your favorite newspaper’s business section, unbeknownst to most, there was another hearing held in City Hall (New York City) about the efforts to improve diversity at some of America’s biggest advertising agencies.
Some may remember that a similar hearing was called [...]

Stretch Your Grand

As this past week’s national news has been dominated by the near collapse of America’s investment banking center, and where big-time investors should move their money to, there were some media outlets – both online and on broadcast television – that provided information about what most, paycheck-to-paycheck living Americans can do financially in these uncertain [...]

Terrible Marketing

I can see why one of America’s top civil rights attorneys, Cyrus Mehri, has commissioned a survey of diversity in ad agencies. When agencies come up with creatives for these following commercials, it puts everyone on notice that there needs to be more voices, preferably ones of color, in the conference rooms on Madison Avenue.
I [...]