In this slice of what seems like typical suburbia, a woman is in the laundry room of her home, taking clothes out of the dryer and folding them. She hears a noise which, while strange sounding to us, isn’t so much to her. Indeed she has a strong hunch about the noise’s origin.
“Honey, you’re not drinking out of the carton are you?” she asks.
Cut to the kitchen where we see her spouse–who happens to be another woman–kneeling in front of the open refrigerator and drinking from the milk carton. Without hesitation, the milk guzzler puts the carton back in the fridge and issues a firm “No,” denying the deed.
A voiceover interjects, “Gay marriage is just like yours–only gayer.”
The spot is tagged with the website address, www.equalmarriage.com.
“Carton” is part of a three-spot package directed by Max Vitali of bicoastal/international HSI Productions for Young & Rubicam, Chicago. The Y&R team consisted of chief creative officer Mark Figliulo, creative director/copywriter Dave Loew, creative director/art director Jon Wyville, executive producer Matt Bijarchi and producer Ashley Geisheker. Annique DeCaestecker executive produced for HSI with Marie Dunaway serving as line producer.
The DP was Stops Langensteiner. Editor was Bill Smedley of Work, London.
Supreme Court Seems Likely To Uphold A Law That Could Force TikTok To Shut Down On Jan. 19
The Supreme Court on Friday seemed likely to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the United States beginning Jan. 19 unless the popular social media program is sold by its China-based parent company.
Hearing arguments in a momentous clash of free speech and national security concerns, the justices seemed persuaded by arguments that the national security threat posed by the company's connections to China override concerns about restricting the speech either of TikTok or its 170 million users in the United States.
Early in arguments that lasted more than two and a half hours, Chief Justice John Roberts identified his main concern: TikTok's ownership by China-based ByteDance and the parent company's requirement to cooperate with the Chinese government's intelligence operations.
If left in place, the law passed by bipartisan majorities in Congress and signed by President Joe Biden in April will require TikTok to "go dark" on Jan. 19, lawyer Noel Francisco told the justices on behalf of TikTok.
At the very least, Francisco urged, the justices should enter a temporary pause that would allow TikTok to keep operating. "We might be in a different world again" after President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20. Trump, who has 14.7 million followers on TikTok, also has called for the deadline to be pushed back to give him time to negotiate a "political resolution." Francisco served as Trump's solicitor general in his first presidential term.
But it was not clear whether any justices would choose such a course. And only Justice Neil Gorsuch sounded like he would side with TikTok to find that the ban violates the Constitution.
Gorsuch labeled arguments advanced by the Biden administration' in defense of the law a... Read More