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Notice, “Home” appears nowhere in this title. That’s a quick synopsis of Friday to the present.
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I’d like to take out the digital equivalent of a felt tipped marker, and draw a red arrow from NYT story #1 —> NYT story #2.
Until last year, DeBeers had a 60-year-long feud with the DOJ related
to its price fixing practices for industrial grade diamonds.
During that period, it could not sell diamonds directly to the U.S.,
and had to use intermediaries. But after settlin’ with the
Justice Department last year, it’s now going to inundate us with more
craptastic, “Diamonds are Forever” ads. I can’t quite comprehend
how this message cancels out the company’s connotations of colonialism,
apartheid, conflict diamonds, child labor, and monopolization, but then again, they can throw a good party.
Y.
June 26, 2005 @ 7:48 pm
Hey, did you settle for the exact same format, with different colors for your site? I like it.
Oh, and down with DeBeers!
Saheli
June 27, 2005 @ 3:30 pm
🙂 I am not terribly fond of diamonds since half the reason we value them so is their ancient marketing and price-fixing campaigns. (Did you read about the right hand ring in the NYT Magazine a couple years back? Talk about falling into a marketing trap.) They’re one of the older evils on the earth. Luckily, this happily coincides with the fact that I prefer colored stones anyway. Every now and then I announce to all who might be around to inform the relevant persons that when the time comes for propositioning I do not want a diamond ring. Usually this is in a roomful of amused guys who cheer me on; once I made it in a room full of normally brilliant female classmates who promptly psychologically tackled me, trying to intellectually beat me into realizing the profound error of my preferences. It was quite frightening.
Saruchiegrrrrlllll
June 30, 2005 @ 8:48 pm
diamonds=blood, death and colonialism
but then again, so do most of the commodities we consume in this country – read Kevin Bales’ book disposable people
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