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TMQ Nation fires back

By Gregg Easterbrook
Special to Page 2

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

A reporter for the Chronicle of Higher Education asked me Tuesday what I would have changed about Nike's Briscoe High commercial, which I have accused of dissing education by implying that it's fine for a high school kid to be ill-schooled as long as he can play football. Here's my answer. The Briscoe High commercial is really well made in cinematic terms, and clearly Nike spent a ton of money both on production and on buying network time so the spot "runs long." Why didn't Nike include 10 secon ...

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