{"id":505,"date":"2018-04-03T12:34:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T19:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/?p=505"},"modified":"2018-04-03T12:34:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T19:34:48","slug":"we-missed-the-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/2018\/04\/we-missed-the-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We Missed the Mark&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember this ad?&nbsp;<img src=\"https:\/\/scontent.fyvr4-1.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-0\/p526x296\/22310226_1662304177153273_4511175166792864139_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&amp;oh=2073c298503c59fef7c51f0ef25f2d0c&amp;oe=5B2FD29C\"><\/p>\n<p>Better yet, do you remember what Dove said about this advertisement? They apologised and said, \u201cDove is committed to representing the beauty of diversity. In an image we posted this week, we missed the mark in thoughtfully representing women of colour and we deeply regret the offense that it has caused.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>THEY MISSED THE MARK!!! WHO SAYS THAT? Well, maybe me in golf&#8230;lol. But let&#8217;s look at another company that also messed up&#8230; pay attention to what their excuse is.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In your response below, be sure to interpret this ad: what is it saying and what is its&#8217; hidden message? It&#8217;s your turn to weigh in- do you think that these are just honest mistakes or do you think that there are other reasons why companies make such mistakes? Is an apology or a short statement enough or should these huge companies face some sort of consequence? Your response should be roughly 15-20 detailed sentences.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/28\/business\/media\/heineken-racist-ad.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/28\/business\/media\/heineken-racist-ad.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2018%2F03%2F28%2Fbusiness%2Fmedia%2Fheineken-racist-ad.html#?secret=vEUthetee9\" data-secret=\"vEUthetee9\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember this ad?&nbsp; Better yet, do you remember what Dove said about this advertisement? They apologised and said, \u201cDove is committed to representing the beauty of diversity. In an image we posted this week, we missed the mark in thoughtfully representing women of colour and we deeply regret the offense that it has caused.\u201d THEY &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/2018\/04\/we-missed-the-mark\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;We Missed the Mark&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7549,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}