Mark Hall Has 6 Dove Nominations

Mark Hall, vocalist and songwriter for the Christian group Casting Crowns, has a leading six nominations for the 2008 Dove Awards.

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Lisa Ling, a former co-host on The View, has tattooed her lower calf in honor of her sister, one of two Americans being held in a North Korean prison. In a video, Ling displayed the small tattoo of a dove and admitted it was her first tattoo - and that it hurt.

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That is, Dove is telling parents to protect their kids, as if Dove CARES, but Dove's parent company is producing those very same messages. (It's kind of like a single corporation owning a beer company and running Alcoholics Anonymous. How very convenient for both.)

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A major advertising campaign, which flaunted the "real beauty" of its ordinary women stars, was perhaps not as naturalistic as first thought after an expert who worked on the pictures claimed he touched them up.

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Coming soon, to a Congress near you: a pro-Israeli, pro-peace PAC. How might this change the way that Congress operates, especially if this group gains traction?

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Mean What you Say, Say What You Mean

One of the best advertising campaigns of late have been what Dove has produced related to the beauty industry and the negative impression it makes upon young women.

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Advertising and Body Image

One social issue that has long been of importance to me is that of body image.

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Ad report card: Advertising deconstructed. The Girl in the Shower

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make up and photoshop skills

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Dove's new create your own video contest is eligible just for women. That's right, you be a man, you are out of luck cause Dove has decided to discriminate against 50% of the population by not allowing men to play in their Dove sandbox.

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Do we really need to be empowered by advertising?

Over time, advertising has been accused of many things, from beer guts (surely that can't be blamed on advertising?) to the mysterious craving to go to White Castle for square-burgers to unreal expectations about things in life. But isn't advertising about selling more stuff?

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From the page: -- How comfortable would you be with a fast-food chain providing the nutrition information in your son's biology class? How about a beauty company lecturing your teenage daughter on her self-image? --

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Followup: Campaign For Not So Real Beauty

As it turns out, this campaign is actually a couple of years old. And while it was to sell product, Unilever (Dove's parent company) seems to have taken a novel and unusually honest approach to the issue:

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