Media Bites – Coca Cola & The Simpsons

In this week’s Media Bites we dissect a Coca Cola commercial that aired during the 2010 Super Bowl. The Coke ad shows the Billionaire businessman Mr. Burns as down on his luck, so the people of Springfield give him a Coke to make him feel all better.

In the real world, it is working class families who are losing their homes and taxpayers are bailing out the very financial institutions that brought about the economic collapse in the first place, according to a report by the Center for Public Integrity.