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Professorial Product Placement

Product Placement has great possibility as a teacher revenue source. Now that teachers can't depend on tenure and contracts, maybe the AFT can negotiate some nifty deals with the conglomerates providing the scripts.

Teachers who have already ceded their rights to plan a lesson can take bids for tattooing the name of the publisher shipping in materials.

Talk to your union rep. All sense of professional ethics has already been given away. Teacher body parts are the only thing left.

by Improbably Research

"Viewing the latest Lady Gaga video, with its ten product placements, I'm inspired by the thought: Why don't professors do product placements, too?" wonders Eric Schwitzgebel, Professor of Philosophy at University of California at Riverside. There are, according to the professor, many potentially lucrative and as-yet-untapped opportunities -- for example to promote products such as fizzy drinks or high-fashion items during presentations, lectures, and even in academic publications. Thus he has recently made the following standing offer to prospective advertisers:



For $2,000,000 U.S., I will give over three inches square of real estate on my check [sic], for an appropriately tasteful tattoo by a company that’s not too evil. (Evil companies will have to pay a surcharge sufficient to bring the overall utilitarian considerations back into balance.) To preserve what's left of my dignity, I will immediately donate half the amount to Oxfam -- which should, conservatively, save at least ten people’s lives.




Schwitzgebel adds, "(That seems worth it, doesn't it? Would you want to face the ten people who died because you weren't willing to tattoo your face?)"

— Staff
Improbable Research
2010-06-09
http://improbable.com/2010/06/09/professorial-product-placement/

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