by Marion Nestle
Apr
10
2017
ICYMI: The tasteless Pepsi commercial–a roundup
Much ink has been spilled and many pixels displayed over Pepsi’s Kendall Jenner commercial, now pulled with an apology from the company.
If you somehow missed what this was about, here’s a selection of comments:
- WPXI Pittsburgh: Bernice King criticizes Pepsi in pointed tweet
- Huffington Post: 3 Mistakes Pepsi Made that Entrepreneurs Should Avoid
- Slate Magazine blog: Beck Bennett Has the Conversation Everyone Involved in Pepsi’s Bad Ad Somehow Avoided
- Christian Post: Is Pepsi, Kendall Jenner Ad Video Really Racist?
- WFPL: Strange Fruit: Pepsi Solved Racism!
- The Interrobang: Protester Tries Kendall Jenner’s Pepsi Move On Portland Mayo
Saturday Night Live has the last word on it. This too got ink and pixels.
- The Washington Post asks: How did that Kendall Jenner-Pepsi ad even get made? SNL imagines an answer.
- Time Manazine: SNL Gives Inside Look Into How the ‘Tone-Deaf’ Kendall Jenner Pepsi Commercial Was Made
- USA Today: ‘SNL’ imagines how that problematic Kendall Jenner Pepsi ad happened
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