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The Sweeps Seasonal campaigns by TV network affiliates aimed at boosting ratings in order to maximize advertising revenue. http://www.culturalstudies.net/sweeps.html

The contrition peddlers When you're a big corporation and you step in racial doo-doo, you call Chisholm-Mingo -- your full-service agency for repentance, prevention and brand-burnishing. Salon article. (July 20, 1999) http://www.salon.com/media/col/shal/1999/07/20/chisholm/

Gandhi was No Pitchman Why Apple chose the wrong icon to promote their product. Article from Salon. (November 4, 1997) http://www.salon.com/media/1997/11/04media.html

Malt liquor marketing to Latinos The malt-liquor industry, drunk on high-octane sales to the black hip-hop nation, has set its sights on the Latino youth market. (October 2, 1997) http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/10.02.97/latino-drinking-9740.html