the Cons recent tweet regarding the NYT - The Truth is Hard

[KewlKat]

Since the Con is now tweeting about this ad, I edited the title to bring this back up to the top. This is the ad he's upset with that will be aired during the oscars.

Link to tweet

They've never run an ad during the oscars but they feel strongly about getting this message out.

This Sunday, The New York Times will debut its first-ever ad to run on the Academy Awards. The simple, black-and-white typographic spot lays out, line by line, a litany of conflicting statements, anchored by the three words, "the truth is" -- "The truth is alternative facts are lies. The truth is the media is dishonest. ...The truth is a woman should dress like a woman. The truth is women's rights are human rights" and so on.

All the while, voiceovers of various people proclaiming their own notions of truth play out in the background. Images and sounds begin to spill over each other at a rapid pace, creating a cacophonous pile-on of information -- until the sound cuts out and the screen goes blank.

Words, now in bold, reappear accompanied by simple piano notes: "The truth is hard/the truth is hard to know/the truth is more important than ever." The ad then closes on the logo of The New York Times.

The spot is part of the publication's first-ever brand campaign in a decade, created out of Droga5 New York. The Oscars version, running nationally, will sub in a pair of lines tailored to Hollywood viewers: "The truth is celebrities should keep their mouths shut. The truth is everyone has the right to speak their mind."

read more at http://adage.com/article/advertising/truth-hard-york-times-oscars-ad/308069/

[KewlKat]

1. bumping

[Cha]

2. Brawawawaaa ".. try reporting accurately and fairly.." as in

"don trump is the greatest person to ever walk the earth."

the stupid burns so hot with that idiot.

Mahalo, Kewl

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. I think the one statement about the Russian investigation is what set him off

As long as that's out in the open it's going to gnaw his crawl.

[AgadorSparticus]

4. What a GREAT ad! No wonder his knickers are in a knot.

Have been thinking of subscribing to them and to the WAPO.

[HipChick]

5. I'm supporting NYT, and subscribing..

[Ms. Toad]

6. I like the NYT - but I'm not thrilled with the ad.

Especially the end - when they seem to switch to their position - which include that the truth is hard to find and hard to know. That way too close to Trump's posiiton that no one really knows what the truth is.

[dalton99a]

7. Kick.