Vintage Ad: TV Will Make You Smarter! - Neatorama

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Here's the headline from this 1950 Motorola ad touting how owning its TV will mean better grades at school for your children, keeping them out of mischief, and strengthen family ties.

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In Australia bigpond are currently running an advertising campaign suggesting that their broad-band service will make your child smarter. Not a lot changes in advertising land.

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Hey, I got rid of my TV. I have better things to do. Like wasting time on the computer. LOL No really, I think TV rots brain cells. Neatorama is all the news I need. :)
http://www.trashyourtv.com/

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Say, weren't we saying the exact same thing about computers and the Internet?

Of course it's ridicule. Just like poking fun at the fashions from the 60's.

We're humans: we like to feel smugly superior to whatever we can.

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Who ridiculed anything? I thought it was posted just to show the change in attitudes since the 50's, which is amusing. Maybe they're actually ridiculing today's attitudes.

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So were they correct about cigarettes being good for us, too?

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