Denny’s Free Grand Slam

Denny’s free grand slam is the hottest topic everyone is talking about today.  I was driving to school and they talked about the free breakfast denny is giving away.  Apparently they have held this last year and gave away 2 million meals, which worths 12 million dollars (each breakfast costs $6).  It makes me wonder is this a profit for the company or not.  Firstly, Denny’s would get more publicity since everyone is talking about it.  They do no have a commercial in the radio, but the DJs were talking about it.  So I assumed Denny’s didn’t pay for the radio advertisements.  Then they had this ad about stressed out chickens who couldn’t lay enough eggs for these hungry people.  I did not know how much the company had spend for that ad to be played during the super bowl, but I’m pretty sure it should cost a lot.  According to NYC daily new, “Denny’s, told the media last year that Denny’s earned about $50 million worth of public relations from the free Grand Slam promotion.  Now that’s a return on investment!” (Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2010/02/09/2010-02-09_dennys_giving_free_grand_slam_from_6_am_to_2_pm_today.html#ixzz0f4fPQ598)  I guess that’s the way how Denny’s could afford to give out all these free meals to people.  This way they could gain huge publicity, even if they don’t provide free food, people might still go there afterwards.

Being Black is being a Comedian?

While I was watching CSI marathon on SPIKE channel, I found this commercial from time warners cable.  It is a commercial promoting Black Comedy.  I found it very interesting in the beginning because the commercial started with couple black drops of ink and it slips, while it slips there’re Black comedy shows previewing.  Time Warners wanted to promote the Black Comedy to the audience, saying Black people produces a lot of comedy throughout our history.

I found this commercial pretty racist, because the message they have sent me is that Black people is always a joke throughout American history.  I know there are a lot of racist actions and times throughout the history.  We watched Beulah in class, which is an African American women, act as a maid.  Her role made the audience laughs.  There was a movie clip which a white person put black stuff on his face so he could be a Black person and sing.  These things concluded to an issue, Black people are funny and they a joke.

Why does people not like African American?  Is it mainly because they have a Black skin color?  They do not have a choice of what color they born with , and I think people should not make fun of them and think they’re comedians because they are different looking and have a different skin color.

I tried to find the commercial on youtube but it wasn’t on. I will try to upload this post with the commercial once it’s out.

The Princess and The Frog

This is a new cartoon produced from Walt Disney.  And it is the first cartoon from disney that has an African American as a Princess.  Princess Jasmine is a princess from the middle eastern area, she isn’t the first African American to be a princess.  I was very shocked by how Princess Tiana is the first African American to be produced in Walt Disney.  Disney plays a big role in little children’s lives, if they are playing Princesses who are white people, how would the children think?  I remember when I was a little girl, I really wanted to be Cinderella for halloween.  However I could never be like her because of my hair color.  I always end up being snow white, because of my black short hair.  I think Disney should have produce an African American Princess long time ago.  They have produced , an Asian tough women solider in 1998.   It took almost 10 years for Disney to produce an African American Princess.  Why so?  Is it because people in Disney finally get to accept Black people?  I think Disney should be embarrassed about how racist they are.

Ipad

Recently we were talking about apples products in class, because of the new product ipad.  The company spent a lot of money on advertisements and commercials for this new product.  I, myself has an iphone, mac air and, itouch and couple ipods.  After watching the preview of the ipad on apple’s website, I really wanted to have this ipad.  The commercial itself was very persuasive and made me thought of getting an ipad.  However, I thought about it deeply, this ipad does not work like a laptop, it does not have a webcam and it couldn’t have word or excel.  It does not work as a laptop.  However this ad on apple made me thought of really getting this ipad, when I already own almost everything from apple.

In other way, I think apple is ripping money off from the consumers.  Such as the iphone.  There are now 3 versions of it.  The difference between iphone 3G and 3Gs is a better camera and the ability to have a video recorder.  I’m sure apple could do better than that, such as having something like the blackberry message but just for iphone users.  There are other products such as ipod shuffles and ipods which has the similar problems.  I feel like apple knows the best product to produce, but they’re taking tiny steps and tiny improvements and make people buy their products.  I believe that is how apple became this successful.