While plenty of jokes and comments about our current political reality were made onstage at last night’s Academy Awards, Audible went out of its way to make commercials to criticize the White House. In two spots that aired last night, the Amazon-owned audiobook company used literature to attack the administration, without ever even saying Donald Trump’s name.
In the first spot, Homeland’s Claire Danes reads a passage from Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables. “Society is to blame for not providing free public education,” Danes recites, “and society will answer for the obscurity it produces.” By the end of the reading, the passage becomes a clear indictment of Trump and newly installed education secretary Betsy DeVos, who is right now pushing for...
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http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/27/14748446/oscars-2017-audible-commercials-trump-policy
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http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/02/audible-had-words-for-trump.html
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