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"It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media."
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"I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second."
"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."
"Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy."
"Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments."
"There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past."
"Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere."
"The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague."
"News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda."
"The network and local TV angle of broadcast television has received a black eye for not properly debating within the news issues that should be debated, instead of shuffling them of to television advertising."
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"Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection."
"The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters."
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"Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left."
"Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics."
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"The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life."
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