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fictitious experts based on their personalities.
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John Fielding,
CEO
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Although sportswear giant Nike spent precisely nothing on television commercials at the 2001 event, it clearly benefited from a more subliminal level of brand exposure.
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John Carthy,
Gun Shop Sales Assistant
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On November 20, 2002, the ACLU of Southern California passed a policy on commercial speech that directly contradicts the ACLU of Northern California's defense of Nike's alleged right to lie.
Supreme Court will decide whether or not to hear Nike's appeal of the California Supreme Court's decision that Nike was engaging in commercial speech which the state can regulate under truth in advertising and other laws.
The court ruled 4 to 3 that Nike's statements were "commercial speech" intended to help it sell merchandise and therefore not entitled to the same First Amendment protection that other forms of expression enjoy.
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Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman
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His television commercials for such clients as Nike, Saturn, Apple Computer, Acura and IBM have also earned awards.
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Sasha Prevette,
Kindergarten student
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Every time I see his expressionless mug in any of the several hundred TV commercials he's done, constantly wearing that stupid Nike hat, I want to vomit.
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Craig Leveaux,
Blogger
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Nike pays basketball legend Michael Jordan more money in one year to appear in their commercials than they pay all the workers in all the factories who make Nike shoes in Indonesia combined.
You can watch Nike commercials or other shows on Fox that are black' shows, and there are people doing things that are probably a million times more stereotypical tan anything that Cleavant has done, but it's viewed completely differently And that's unfair.
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Jordan Jones,
Rapper
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As one of the most prestigious production houses in America, Propaganda has created videos for such artists as Madonna, Michael Jackson and The Rolling Stones, as well as commercials for clients including Nike, Coca Cola and Budweiser.
As one of the most prestigious production houses in America, Propaganda has created videos for such artists as Madonna, Michael Jackson, and The Rolling Stones and commercials for clients including Nike, Coca Cola and Budweiser.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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Also, the statement equates commercial speech with advertising, but communications need not be ads to attempt to influence the actions of potential customers (and therefore be commercial speech), as Nike's PR campaign obviously was intended to do.
The California court ruled Nike's campaign constituted commercial speech, and is thus subject to California consumer protection laws that are among the least friendly to business in the country.
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