Extreme Thanksgiving

The
new trend in diversifying funds among major corporations
is to purchase the rights to holidays; starting with Google's
acquisition of Christmas, Viacom has quickly followed
suit snatching Thanksgiving and the first two weeks of
women’s history month. Speculation is currently
running rampant on what the conglomerate plans to do with
its new holdings. Current Vice President of Seasonal Sales
and Promotions, Martin Salaberg, promises to bring to
thanksgiving the same quality of styling and product placement
that he brought to MTV!
Salaberg made the following remarks about plans for Thanksgiving,
at a Knights of Cortez Luncheon.
"Viacom
hopes to fuse the antiquated notions of a traditional
Thanksgiving with a modern vision. Aiding the day
with several Viacom owned characters will give the
day a broad consumer appeal and merchandizing potential.
The turkey and the pilgrim were fine for your mom
and pop, but in these modern times, people need icons
they know and identify with. There were no cell phones
at the first Thanksgiving, or Xbox 360s. We hope to
change that. Rather then propagate seasonal gluttony!
We hope to channel resources away from gorging and
turn it into gifting!" |
Offering no comments on any plans for women's history
month, Salberg added more to a growing controversy. An
uncovered inner-departmental Viacom memo mentioned a re-branding
of the March fortnight to "Special K Presents: Women’s
History Month". The memo that was published in a
HASBEEN magazine editorial has brought a firestorm of
criticism to both the cereal giant Kellogg’s, and
Viacom.
The Axis of Stevil believes that days, dates, holidays,
weeks, month's and all other denomination of time are
in the public domain, therefore are not subject to rights
of use.