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Liquor companies often come under fire for advertising in poor neighborhoods where alcoholism is already a huge problem, but now ten Brooklyn teens are accusing director Spike Lee of taking part in the same type of predatory marketing. After conducting a survey of posters and billboards advertising alcohol in the low-income Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, the teens found that a series of Absolut Vodka posters for a limited-edition “Brooklyn flavor” endorsed by Lee dominated all other ads. This is the same neighborhood Lee put on the map in his 1989 classic Do the Right Thing.
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Posted on November 2, 2010 via The Smithian with 15 notes
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see now d i almost reblogged but i was moved to comment on this… yes. liquor is a problem. well, liquor can be a...
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i agree. this poster and spkie are a damn shame. yeah, he’s human, and he need money, blah, blah, blah. this a long and...
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