Thick as Thieves – NBC and Playboy

September 20, 2011

Last evening NBC premiered the show The Playboy Club, based on Hugh Hefner’s 1960s Chicago Playboy Club.  The TV show drew much outrage months before it was broadcast both from the right and the left – pro-family groups, anti-pornography organizations, and the women’s right advocate Gloria Steinem.

While NBC aired steamy promotions in the weeks before the premiere, they tried to claim with a straight face that the show The Playboy Club was not a promotion of pornography or a promotion of the actual Playboy magazine and brand.

Yet not only is the Playboy name and logo peppered throughout the show, Hugh Hefner himself was used as a narrator for the initial episode.  Hefner has eaten up the free publicity NBC is offering from the show to reinvigorate his aging brand overshadowed by the proliferation of internet porn.   In return, Hefner has given NBC a quid pro quo, using one of the actresses from NBC’s The Playboy Club as the “cover girl” of the October issue of his pornographic Playboy magazine – released to coincide with the premiere episode of NBC’s raunchy new show.  NBC and Playboy are as thick as thieves in their promotion of pornography.
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Urge Meijer to discontinue carrying the Playboy brand.

December 6, 2010

Meijer is a favorite shopping center of many in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky and Pennsylvania.  Many have appreciated their responsiveness to expressions of concern as various issues have arisen.

For example: years ago Meijer withdrew from the sales of Playboy magazine.

In more recent years, Meijer withdrew from selling Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition.
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Army and Air Force Exchange Service selling p**n

September 13, 2009

Army and Air Force Exchange Service is defending its policy to sell sexually explicit magazines like Playboy, Penthouse, Nude Playmates, and a host of others, despite the federal Military Honor and Decency Act, (10 U.S.C. § 2489) which prohibits the sale of sexually explicit publications in military exchanges. They seem more concerned with the number of complaints received rather than the law. Military families are encouraged to file complaints. (Continue Reading…)