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Showing posts with label CSI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CSI. Show all posts

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Wait, Is CBS Underwriting This "College"?

Bus ad

It probably goes without saying, but... perhaps there's something hinky about a "college" that advertises on the back of a bus and promotes careers that have been popularized by a long-running hit TV show.

It's kind of hard to read from this photo, but ICDC College is marketing a degree for "Crime Scene Investigator" with the marketing tagline "Expose Criminal Minds." You read that right -- ICDC is somehow using two different CBS crime procedural dramas ("CSI" and "Criminal Minds") to help promote its programs. I can't imagine CBS would be happy with this, but I suppose ICDC could argue that it's just referring to real-life people. Either way, are we really supposed to believe there's a sudden boom in criminal forensics jobs just because crime procedurals are popular on TV? You'd probably just be better off saving your money.

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Spotted: CSI Spawns a Cottage Industry



Remember those old TV ads starring Sally Struthers and touting home schooling for trades like gun repair?

Oh, how 1980s of you. These days, via ads on the MTA buses, I notice that the hot new jobs are in the "CSI" field. (See above.) Yes, thanks to good ol' TV, these profit-driven trade schools are churning out a generation of wannabe Marg Helgenbergers and David Carusos. Apparently crime scene investigation is a growth industry?