#advertising

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#american #anyone #anywhere #captive #hostile

Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled. ↗

— John Wanamaker

#any #been #believes #costly #customer

If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have. ↗

— Kit Williams

#advertising #human #instinct #listen #makes

The point is that television does not reveal who the best man is. In fact, television makes impossible the determination of who is better than whom, if we mean by 'better' such things as more capable in negotiation, more imaginative in executive skill, more knowledgeable about international affairs, more understanding of the interrelations of economic systems, and so on. The reason has, almost entirely, to do with 'image.' But not because politicians are preoccupied with presenting themselves in the best possible light. After all, who isn't? It is a rare and deeply disturbed person who does not wish to project a favorable image. But television gives image a bad name. For on television the politician does not so much offer the audience an image of himself, as offer himself as an image of the audience. And therein lies one of the most powerful influences of the television commercial on political discourse. ↗

— Neil Postman

#campaigns #debate #democracy #discourse #elections

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising. ↗

— John Lahr

#calls #crazy #drives #lust #people

The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#advertising #annoy #endeavors #human #imperfect

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I. ↗

— Barack Obama

#am #approve #avalanche #become #believe

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose. ↗

— Carrie P. Snow

#appeals #choose #degrades #deprives #people

A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter. ↗

— Nicholas Johnson

#equivalent #moral #skips #viewer #who

Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is. ↗

— Fairfax Cone

#go #see #somebody #you