Short Post on Ad Juxtaposition: Jack Kemp Obit with Facebook, BlackBerry

3 May 2009 | Community, Eventness, Internet, Marketing, Media, Personal, Politics | Comments

News of former GOP stalwart Jack Kemp’s passing after a long bout with cancer hit yesterday, and this morning I clicked a link to an article about this on Time.com and found a banner ad for the new Facebook application on BlackBerry taking up the prominent 3 o’clock position.

I took a big screenshot that you can find here, and here’s a sneak preview:

This content-ad juxtaposition struck me from a surreal angle. Kemp himself probably had a BlackBerry later in his career — or an assistant who had one — and probably had heard of FaceBook, but what would his response have been to seeing such a twenty-first century ad placed next to a story about such a twentieth centure figure?

Note also the AT&T U-Verse ad at the top of the page.

Note#2: Kemp was 73, which USED to seem old.