There's a different between 'promotion' and 'bait and switch'. There's also the matter of the externalities of the products you're promoting.

If Hicks marketed his shows as life-changing experiences which'll give you a bigger dick, then just ran normal stand-up, it'd be right to criticise him.

Just as it's right to criticise companies who claim to sell 'food', show ads of nice happy, healthy families, and throw buzzwords around to manipulate customers at the detriment of their own health and lives.

The hijacking of language by megacorps is sad. Words have meaning, backed by history, tradition, and culture, and shouldn't be used as marketing tools to get consumers addicted to slop.

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cm2012 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I didn't recall Hicks saying that people who do bait-and-switch tactics (which i also agree are bad) should kill themselves. I recall him saying all marketers and advertisers should kill themselves.

	▲	rayiner 38 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Most marketing these days is that kind of pernicious Mad Men style feelings-based marketing. If ads were informational, like “here is a new product you might like from the makers of this other product you already use,” that would be different.

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thesmtsolver2 40 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

You are doing a bait and switch now comparing all ads to bait and switch.