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Amnesty International Thinks They Bug the World's Tyrants
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Here, the human rights organization makes like an eight-year-old scamp, Photoshopping cross-eyes onto the faces and their logo onto the noses of worldwide poster boys for despotism—North Korea leader Kim Jong-il and Zimbabwe president (still, as of this morning) Robert Mugabe. These ads, produced by a Spanish agency, are worth a giggle. And that's about it. Amnesty does a lot good around the world, but their advertising is essentially useless. What exactly do they think these Mad magazine-like posters will achieve? No matter, ad agencies all over the globe giddily line up to work pro bono for A.I. because it's a great chance to put ad award hardware on their shelves. So, it's a selfish, symbiotic win-win. After the jump, view a third tweaked EvilDoer.
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by ANIMAL on May 7, 2008
Comments (2)
The thing is, marketing is all Amnesty ever does. They're not an organization that DOES anything per se; they watch and report, which may be useful, but has a tendency to reduce and rob the voices of those inside a given country. Presumably they speak for those that cannot speak themselves, and sometimes certainly that is true, but most of the time they're really just hogging all the glory. And, like anything, WHOM they choose to report or to ignore, says something about their agenda.
Its not that I think Amnesty International seeks to expand a military empire all around the world, but they do and often are, promoters of "humanitarian intervention", the ultimate slippery slope, and a convenient scapegoat for any military action, often taken, not for the benefit of the people getting slaughtered, but for a multitude of other reasons.
Posted by Sean S. | May 7, 2008 7:45 PM
Uh, they do it for fundraising.
Posted by Stumpy | May 19, 2008 7:54 PM