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At my full time job, I’m a content writer for a gift card company. Last year, we released some new designs featuring Santa around famous landmarks across the U.S. Trying to breathe some creativity into a press releases, I wrote a piece on how Santa has been helping our company deliver gift cards and now he’s gone missing! It was an announcement for a Where’s Santa contest and featured an image of a cartoon Santa and treasure map. While I realize a press release may not have been the best medium for that message, I never expected it to be denied. The wire service we used sent an e-mail informing me that they would not run an article that could confuse people into thinking Santa is a real person.
Big Bang Theory
I realize it is now August, but it has been bothering me ever since. When did we start protecting grown adults from believing in Santa? When did we start protecting people from thinking?
-Eliabeth Hawthorne
Really? Protecting adults from believing in Santa. Really?
love this. and i need to make a copy of that picture and hang it in my office.
When I was bringing up my offspring I told them from the beginning that Santa Claus wasn’t real. I did that so that when they eventually found out he wasn’t, they wouldn’t say “Oh and we guess you’ve been kidding us about God too!” (find your way through all the negatives there). Despite this, my youngest steadfastly believed in Santa and is now an atheist. But that doesn’t matter to me because… he made up his own mind! 🙂
Ah, the dark side of rationality. So sad. They’ll be denying the right to believe in anything next, things like truth, justice, honour, beauty, fidelity, love – the list is endless. Well, I’m not sure I believe in rationality, as being irrational is a major part of what makes us human. Just a personal opinion, of course, but I think I may be too old and set in my ways to change now.
Wow! Well if it helps any, I thought it was a great idea. Very clever. I guess companies all have their own reasons…