[throwaway48476]

Advertising well known products is an exercising in bribing the media advertised in to look the other way on their abuses.

[spencerflem]

I'm not convinced. I've seen these ads work on myself- I see an Oreo ad and think, oh an Oreo does sound nice now actually. Or that something is popular and the best: why go to Bush Gardens when we all know that Disney is the Premiere theme park.