Media Ideas

Mass Media

The biggest media outlets are the best. They’re big because they’re the most competitive and consumers vote for them above the other media with their dollars and eyeballs.

Independent Media

Independent media reports a more diverse and authentic picture of the world.

Anti-Internet Media

“You can’t trust anything you find on the Net. I’ll believe it when I see it on the TV. “

Media Criticism

“More street crime, never corporate crime, and the weather...? That’s what happened in your town tonight? And we own the public air waves! It’s a disgrace!”

—Ralph Nader

Media Reform

“Armed with information, people can plot a course into the future.”
“Local newscasts are filled with happy talk and sports and weather.” “Not so much the information age as the entertainment age.” Stimulate that interest.
“The one thing we cannot do in a democracy is le
“The money lies in commercial data and the marketplace fails in areas like providing fairminded intelligent full civic information so I think we need a new model and policy as we move into the age to provide the kinds of material that society values and needs for suvrival and especially democracy requires but that the marketplace, understandably, is not providing.”

Anti-TV Spectacle

“What television is not good for is complex discourse, and the problem here is that television has become the command center of the country, the equivelant of the church in the midevil world. For anything to matter it has to come from television, we go to it for everything. It’s at that point that we naysay. This is not a medium that can present to us in forms that are intelligible and serious the ideas that every culture needs to have. People WATCH television and what they like to WATCH are fast moving exciting exotic images and thats what television is mainly good for and it begins to become dangerous when people look to television for their serious ideas.” “In fact, television creates reality.”

“What is the first question a news director asks before they come to work? ‘Do we have any good footage?’ ‘Somebody got a videotape of a jumper going all the way down.’ ‘That’s our leader, use it as the promo, tune in tonight to watch it’. What’s happening is that the television director knows what TV is good for, that people watch for. Somenone says congress passed the budget but what are you going to show? TV is at its best when its doing what we might roughly call entertainment. When we come to serious matters, tv is not a good one for this. Especially things that require talk and complex language and historical perspective. The director plays a game you don’t realize the rules of.”

Actionability

“99% of what passes for news is of the nature that the average person can do nothing about. There was a time when the purpose of information was to solve specific problems in the environemnt, people sought information because they needed it to do something in the world. We’ve become inundated with information from all over, mostly input with no output from us. We can watch a murder on television or something as lurid and awful and continue to eat our chicken sandwich. We’re not invited to do anything here. This may have created a sense of impotence. If you’re constantly getting information about hwich you can do nothing, it can suggest that you are impotent. Maybe this accounts for a surprising indifference people have for toxicity in the physical environment. Wouldn’t people be interested in warming or rainforests? Its possible that we’ve become conditioned to think information has nothing to do with us, its just a kind of commodity.”
We need to convert information into knowledge.

Attention

“One of the limited resources is our attention span. More and more people are competing for it. When we’re distracted, we become vulnerable to any kind of marketing message and it becomes more difficult to be skeptical and critical thinking. Marketers ultimately want a society where we’re more educated about choosing them.”

“When a nerve is stimulated, it responds, repeatedly it diminishes due to habituation. In many ways, that’s our response to the stories that do come out about global warming. Slow motion catastrophes. We don’t see people dying and blood.” —David Suzuki

Spectacle

“They’re only interested in dramatics. The media is interested in sex, scandal, violence and celebrity. If you have all four stories you have a super story... You make the rules and we play the game. Because Bo Derrick is our spokesperson, we’re going to be on the front page of your newspaper and there’s nothing you can do about it.” —Paul Watson, Green Peace and Sea Shephards founder
Play to win.

Issue Fatigue

“Public outrage takes energy, the strain of maintaining that extra thing in your life wondering when the government will do something. The government and corps pretend to say uncle, mea culpa, we’re all environmentalists. They’re creating departments of the environment instead of actions. Commitments and nonsense shut down public outrage. Great now I’ve got my blue box for recycling and believe things are being done. The media needs to watch when the rubber hits the road and see what happens afterwards.”

“The PR industry has counselled clients on how to deal with environmentalists. A dozen or so global pr companies started making donations to environmental groups which surprisingly became quiet and took reps on boards of directors. It was called cooperation not confrontation. It seemed to harbor a good thing. Meanwhile they lobby to gut the environmental protections in government. PR strategy is to bring together stakeholders and work out compromises. Not about cooption, dividing and conquering. GO after, coopt, buy mainstream groups and marginalize most progressive groups as extremists.”

Brownwashing of environmentalists, greenwashing of corporations.
We need to be discerning in our support of these.

“You’re history.”

Simply to have people barking across the web is promoting rumor and chatter like playing telephone. The profound question is what is the foudnation of authority that conveys to people what is worth knowing and how to evaluate what to come across. What’s a legitimate authority? It’s the fundamental challenge to education.”

We do not have institutions capable of mobilizing opinions into democratic opinions. People don’t know how to act upon what they know but in a serious mood there is a great awareness.

Whenever I feel overwhelmed, I let others inspire me.

You don’t do what you do because you’ll win or lose, you do it because its the right thing to do. Do not be overwhelmed by attachment.”

The laws of ecology can only be violated for so long. These are laws that must be obeyed or consequences. We’re so engrossed in trivialities that we are blind to what is real. The world that is being shaped right now, the world we’re creating for the future, is our responsibility.

Public vs private – the requirement is that the public themselves have a certain amount of skill and that the technology/organization be in plac

“The precautionary principle says you don’t use a technology unless you have safeguards that say there is no real hazard of using technology. Let’s not use it unless we’re sure it doesn’t have potential dangers associated.”

A technology offering only good news we want is a setting for disaster.

We’re at the limit of the manipulation-control-exploitation and thinking of things as only of value to us, not valuable themselves. Nature is too complex to control and we have to heal that pathology that splits us from nature.

Monoculture of the mind.
diggers
paying for it in hours of your life
Militant Activism
http://www.seashepherd.org/

Anti-Genetic Engineering

“Geneticists confused their value judgements about good and bad with scientific truth to say people we didn’t like shouldn’t breed and justified imprisonment of japanese and holocaust. Geneticists aren’t taught this history of their discipline. Now they’re once again intoxicated.”

Political Deligitimization

“How does a spiral of deligitamization happen? Over a period of time, a culture of mistrust grows aided and abetted by a suspicious society which delights in snooping on leaders. Two factors: everything becomes public gristmill and everything becomes privatized. People vote for things that will help THEM only. Public and private are terms of public discourse. One version of public is of or pertaining to the whole, on behalf of the whole. Public as open to scrutiny. Private as not subject to publicity and hidden from observation.”

Bethke?

Expressionist absolutism reduces politics to subjective feelings
Martin Luther king didn’t ask for love but for a social covenant about concrete concerns. Don’t automatically divide people.
How does the institution of the free press shape what we think we know?

Necessary Illusions

Engineering consent is said to be the job of a president or leader. Idea is that leaders control us, not that we control them. If we get in their way, they become secretive or deceptive to pacify us.
Stories run like, “Setbacks to US in United Nations” instead of, “World Court Condemns US For International Terrorism”
Genetic Freedom, Anti-Genetic Patenting
“Owning a gene you discover is like saying you own an element you isolate.” —?
“Companies can patent and demand money without paying for publically funded research which created the technology. Companies only make drugs for rich people. “Why do we leave these decisions up to them?””
WTO made laws against national choice about patentability.
“We need a real revolution in thought and especially how we value life. Otherwise, biotech will continue to develop in the service of money instead of in the service of all of us who live together on this planet.”

Business is now driving the agenda

“Today there’s too much pressure on scientists. When you demand quick profit and funding goes to applicable products, you’re more likely to get a Frankenstein monster. The scientist who discovered DDT won a nobel prize against instincts but it made its way up the food chain.”

Mute Button

When commercials start up on the television or radio, you reach for the volume control to silence the voice of advertising. This is a strategy used by those who just want some quiet or are anti-advertising. Failing to restore volume at the exact instant the program resumes may offend some fellow watchers, and those who like advertising may actually watch commercials with as much enthusiasm as the program itself.

“You weak-minded fool! He’s using an old Jedi mind trick.” —Jabba the Hutt
“Unlearn what you have learned you must.” —Yoda
“Hard to see, the dark side is.”

Anti-Homelessness

“You know why there’s no war on homelessness? There’s no money in it. If you could come up with a solution to homelessness where the corporate swine and the politicians could steal a few million dollars each, you’d begin to see the streets clear up pretty damn quick, I gaurantee you that.” –George Carlin
Powerful elites of the world possess more than enough wealth to help homeless people regain control of their lives.

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Armchair rebellion isn’t enough. Rather than waiting for the media to show you the world you want to see, you become a direct participant in changing the world.

“You will not be able to stay home brother. You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out... you will not be able to lose yourself on stag and skip out for commercials because the television will not be televisied... the revolution will not be brought to you by sponsors and star celebrities... the revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal... there will be no hilights on the 11oclock news... the theme song will not be written... the revolution will not be right back after a message... you will not go better with cola... the revolution will put you in the driver’s seat... The revolution will be no rerun brothers. The revolution will be live.”

—Gil Scott Heron

Anti-Dow Chemical

http://www.guerrillanews.com/human_rights/doc1969.html
The Battle for the Hearts and Minds of Men
“There is a battle that rages in the world today - a struggle for greater than that for territory or wealth. It is the battle for the hearts and minds of individuals. As every person bases his thoughts, decisions and actions on that which is rooted in his heart and his mind, these are in reality the power seats of life. The Bible illustrates this in Proverbs 23:7 : ‘For as a man thinks in his heart, so is he’.” —Christian Site?
Brand Awareness
This is what makes blindfolded people wearing two brands of shoes but told they think a shoe feels better than another because they are told it is their favorite brand when in fact it is the other shoe.
When you propogate Brand Awareness, you choose a specific brand to promote. You make a brand awareness meme test t
Effect: When comparing a brand you are aware of to something else, the meme makes a test against your Willpower to compel you to favor it. When comparing two brands, they make opposed tests to win your favor.

Brandwagon

Interesting case: Chinese tea culture vs cola marketing. the religious reputation in third world countries.
Nuance
“If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.”
Complex issues shouldn’t be over-simplified to fit a narrow world-view.

Censorship

The suppression of all or part of a publication, play, or film considered objectionable or a threat to security.
Mass media, government control, parental control

Self-Censorship

“If A equals success, then the formula is: A=X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.”
+ Careerism

Anti-Censorship

Censorship is foolish. It focuses on innofensive things and ignores much more serious vulgarities.
“SHIT. If this offends you, may you never shit again. If this does not offend you, FUCK. If this offends you, may you never...naaah! Too harsh. If this offends you, may it hurt each time you fuck. If this does not offend you, CUNT. If this offends you, remember where you were when you first saw the light of day. At birth, you had a cunt stretched across your head. Just like a little hat. If this does not offend you, COCKSUCKER. If this offends you, ask yourself why. Every woman is a cocksucker, and so are many men. The men who aren’t cocksuckers seem to have no problem with the women who choose this activity, but have big problems with the men who do so. Why would this be? Could it be that all these men are afraid they might be potential cocksuckers? If this does not offend you, RELIGION. If this offends you, welcome to the world of sane and realistic critical thought. More harm has been done to the collective human psyche by religion than by all the fucking and cocksucking since the dawn of time. By the way, many religious people (including the ordained) fuck and suck each other’s cocks all the time.” —George Carlin.com [Anti-religion and Anti-homophobia too]

Plausible Deniability

Using power and authority to flatly ridicule the accusations and acusers as false.
“Mr., you are a phony. You are a systematic liar and I’m tired of your...”

Anti-Money Laundering

to pass illegally acquired money through a legitimate business or bank account in order to disguise its illegal origins
“Sources say American Express gift certificates have become the currency of choice among stations looking for something in exchange for playlist adds. “That’s the way [stations] want to be paid by us, because they can’t be traced,” explains one record company’s head of radio promotion. “They can buy whatever they want; it doesn’t have to be station-related. They can go out and buy themselves fishing poles.” —Salon.com

Creativity

You feel the urge to express yourself through works of some kind.
“You have 206 bones in your body. Surely, one of them is creative.” —Apple Computer

Independent Media

The independent media agent is someone who reports on issues from an individual perspective in the interest of providing objective and truthful information. Their reporting is remarkably different from that of corporate media outlets. Independent media often shares stories that are conspicuously overlooked by others.

“Among the “liars and whores of the press”, are key people in a position to know but are silent. Do not waste my time that I should talk to the Chicago Tribune or the New York Times, or any of the pressfakers. This has to be a public issue, without submitting it to be approved by the monopoly press.” —Sherman Skolnick, http://www.skolnicksreport.com/chinesesp3.html

Anti-censorship, investigative journalism

Investigative Journalism

Juicy stories must be sought even if it means great risk. Exposing the truth is its own reward, and the danger comes with the territory.

You have to go to the dangerous places and put yourself in the hot spots to get the fresh, real information and interview the people involved and follow up the stories and trace the clues.

“No one has ever advanced their career in the last thirty years by coming up with a great investigative piece. That is a way to get unemployed. Anyone who thinks it’s all “Murphy Brown” and “All the President’s Men” out there is wrong. That’s the fantasy. That’s all television and the movies. It’s not in the newsrooms. If you say what I want to do is expensive and difficult and involves getting inside documents, and upsetting the established order, you are not going to get anywhere.” —Greg Palast

Dan Rather confessions http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/2002/06/06_Greg_Palast.html

Concealing the purpose of an interview

Sometimes when you can’t get access to somebody or somewhere, you can give them the idea that your purpose is more favorable towards them to get what you need.

Be Your Own Media

Why complain about the media when you can create media for others.
Self-Reliance
“?...Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing, it was here first.”-Mark Twain

Subliminal Messages

Subliminals are messages that are outside our conscious perceptions. They may take the form of sounds we don’t know we can hear or images we don’t realize we’ve seen. The most popular form of subliminal is the flashing single frame of video with a message that appears too briefly for us to read or even notice. Subliminals can make very subtle idea test bonuses that you are not aware of until later.

In game terms, a subliminal will normally work secretly and later be factored into chances. For example, you see a subliminal that gives you a +10% anti-bureaucracy. You aren’t asked to resist it, the GM simply notes it without informing you. Later, when you are faced with a situation involving bureaucrats, you check what you think of them by making an Anti-Bureaucracy idea chance. Anti-bureaucrats rolls 1 point too low to influence you, but because of the GM’s noted Subliminal bonus, you are informed that anti-burueaucrats succeeds. You don’t know that this is due to a subliminal because there are many other modifiers the GM could be accounting for.

Subliminals are thought to be short-lived.

Some say they are junk science and make believe. Indeed, there are self-help tapes that sell this. It seems likely that they communicate with single words only.

In 1974, the Federal Communications Commission adopted a policy saying that subliminal advertising was contrary to the public interest. If the FCC received a complaint, it would investigate broadcasters who aired the ad, but no complaints have been received about this ad, officials said.

-(http://www.Bushisms.com/Rats.html)

Computer Games Influence Minds

“Computer games don’t affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.”

—Kristian Wilson, Nintendo

“Some people think they have a positive effect, some a negative, but many people agree that games we play affect how we think. Sometimes correspondences are coincidental, but sometimes not.”

Professional Sports

“People need a diversion and sports is that entertainment.”

Anti-Professional Sports

“Distraction? From what?”

“What is fun or athletic about watching a bunch of millionaires play sports while you sit on the couch? Why not start your own sporting event or join a team?”

“Pro atheltes are a tiny minority illusion.”

Dangerous Information Control

Is it wrong to share information about such dangerous subjects as bombs, poisons and nuclear science? What if it encouraged someone to use it? Well, certainly this is a possibility.

While dangerous instructions might be widely available on the internet, putting it out there in my book is promoting it. Only those subjects which should come to immediate usefulness, such as safety information against such attacks and stories relating to stopping them in general, should be promoted.

Selfish Genes
Genes ‘want’ to spread and use us as vehicles to do so by behaving in ways that promote their reproduction.

Memes

“Memes don’t exist. Tell your friends.”
Memes are ideas that spread from one person’s mind to another, much like genes do between organisms.
Hatred
They are everything we hate.
Outdoor appreciation

Weather

responses eg. nice day, I’ll go out and enjoy it
Eg. Go to class or go to woods? Teacher considers, conservative order or outdoor class for the day?
Vancouver
Anti-rain
Anti-rain
I hate it being so wet.
+ Depression

Vicarious Trauma

You deal with other people’s suffering so much that it effects you.
http://www.uic.edu/orgs/convening/vicariou.htm
I’ve got friends who work for rape crisis centers and do domestic abuse therapy with battered women and children. They can handle it about a year before they burn out completely. The light leaves their eyes.
Caregiving, crisis counselling
http://www.uic.edu/orgs/convening/proc20.htm

School Scandal Supression

“It isn’t a crime until someone tells the police and since federal law requires schools to post their crime stats on the net, there is a tremendous pressure to handle such things quietly. Expulsion is typically the worst punishment that can be meted out and the expelling school takes great pains not to damage the reputation of the expelled student... after all, if the student had actually done anything, they would have to report it.”

—Plastic

Hypocrisy

You say one thing but do another, and it shows.
Disadvantage: Whenever you behave in a way that contradicts your statements, you offend others.
“I was talking about how the world needed to change while hiding from my own problems.”

Quarantine

When you are dealing with biological contamination, you must be absolutely thorough in cleaning up.
“I say we dust off and nuke the entire site from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure” —Ripley, Aliens

Tape Copying

Radio Shack Double VCR for cassette copying

Anti-Civilianism

Civilians are inferior weaklings who lack the displine of military men. They have no appreciation for the work you do. They are soft.
“You can’t handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who’s gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that Santiago’s death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives...You don’t want the truth. Because deep down, in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall. You need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty...we use these words as the backbone to a life spent defending something. You use ‘em as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide, then questions the manner in which I provide it! I’d rather you just said thank you and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon and stand a post. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you’re entitled to!” —Colonel Nathan Jessep on the Stand in the movie A Few Good Men, by Aaron Sorkin

Anti-Wrestling

Wrestling is so stupid.
“’Wrestling’ is not a sport, it is a rediculous theatrical joke of utterly mindless staged crudity.”

Wrestling

You’ve got to love wrestling.
“I don’t care if its staged, I love it!” —?
“I’d like to wrestle with the Rock in private.” —Anonymous Female Fan

Space Exploration

“New hopes for peace and knowledge are there. And so as we set sail on the most hazardous and difficult journey, we ask god’s blessing...”
—John F. Kennedy, President of U.S.A.

World

MEDIA IDEAS

Anti-Journalism

Some years back I read a story, I believe in the Columbia Journalism Review, that showed that the average reporter researched the average story, or at least any story s/he didn’t copy off a wire service, for 20 minutes at her/his desk. I’ve talked to some of the guardians of the Fourth Estate and believe 20 minutes is profoundly optimistic. Most reporters strike me as kind of also-ran writing athletes. They’re trained to use a phone and crank out a lot of words per minute. Analytic thinking isn’t one of their specialties. Most don’t have much time for simple fact-testing, given how newsrooms have been cut back to preserve profit margins. And don’t get me started on the press and statistics. A lot of mathematicians don’t really understand statistics; that’s how counter-intuitive and shadowy the field really is. What are the chances that a 2nd year community college grad is going to be able to interpret stats in a meaningful way? -scottalanellis on plastic.com

Anti-Public Relations

Public relations hides a rotten reality.
“Corporate spokesdroids often invoke the “free market”, but when they do so, hang onto your wallet. It’s the oratorical equivalent of a politician wrapping him/herself in the flag.”
—?
“It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is one of the most significant propaganda achievements of the twentieth century.”
—Alex Carey, Taking Risk Out of Democracy

Journalistic Ideas

What kinds of ideas govern reporters?

Softball Questioning

Easy questions designed to make the interviewee look good.
“Republicans, led by Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, praised Pryor’s distinguished career, his numerous awards, and the hundreds of letters supporting his nomination. They tossed him softball questions about his “mainstream” approach to the law.” —http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2003/11/ma_564_01.html

Hardball Questioning

Tough questions designed to challenge the interviewee and force them to tell the truth about the most relavent matters with followup questions to dig deeper into unsatisfactory answers.

"Democrats, by turn, hammered at Pryor’s conservative social stands. Didn’t it matter that he had once canceled a family vacation to Disney World to avoid a gay and lesbian event? Could someone who blamed the Supreme Court for “the slaughter of millions” fairly interpret the law? Did the only state attorney general to challenge the Violence Against Women Act deserve a lifetime appointment? “I don’t understand, looking at your record, how one can conclude that you don’t have an agenda,” said Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy, leading the Democratic attack. It was a classic confrontation, one that has been repeated again and again with President Bush’s judicial nominees.

Anti-Trends

“Trends” are as subjective and flawed as the humans reporting on them. At work, I subscribe to a service that seeks leads (experts, sources, etc.) on a wide variety of topics, and the fishing/speculation done by journalists can boggle the mind. Many of the submissions show that many people bringing us the news are 1) operating from an unsubstantied position and seeking sources to confirm their feelings, 2) jumping to a conclusion, declaring it as fact and seeking supportive data, or 3) inventing a trend by hooking together two vaguely related issues.

Entertaining Writing

Speaking as an editorial writer, you HAVE to realize that when someone writes, they do so with the knowledge that they’re going to step on some toes, they’re going to generalize, and basic commit every flaw of real logic in presenting their “argument” that you can think of. If an editorial writer was constantly worried about stereotyping and generalizing he would write the blandest, most uninteresting shit ever...and people would STILL disagree with him. Any writer is intelligent enough to know that not ALL of any group is going to have certain characteristics. But what the hell are ya gonna say? “Mmmm...I’d say about 72% of all liberals are PC and humorless.” It would be like writing a research paper and calling it an editorial column. Part of editorial writing is to entertain. The smarminess is just attitude...editorials are expected to have attitude...once again, to make them interesting.
http://www.alternatives.com/quest/PREVIEW.HTM#3

Downplay

Making something seem less important to distract attention from it.

Hype

Playing something up to attract attention to it.

Stop Asking Questions
Stonewalling
Ignoring inquiries.

Anti-Television News

“You step in front of a camera and you step out of news business and into show business.”

—David Brinkley
Material Evidence
The smoking-gun
Anecdotal Evidence
There are reports that some of them…

Anti-Liberal Media

Much of the major media reflect liberal biases. Many reporters who claim to be objective are card-carrying Democrats with agendas and axes to grind. Networks like Fox are needed to counterbalance this constant spin.

Anti-Conservative Media

Much of the major media reflect conservative biases. Many reporters who claim to be objective, even those who are card-carrying Democrats, report with a conservative bias due to a number of factors including selective hiring, advertiser influence, editorial control, etc.

Mass Media

“This is the old cabal theory that somewhere there’s a room with a baize-covered desk and there are a bunch of capitalists sitting around and they’re pulling strings. These rooms don’t exist. I mean I hate to tell Noam Chomsky this. …I think this is the most absolute rubbish I’ve ever heard. This is the current fashion in universities. You know, it’s patent nonsense and I think it’s nothing but a fashion. It’s a way that intellectuals have of feeling like a clergy. I mean, there has to be something wrong.” —Tom Wolfe
Liberal Education Self-Directed Learning
“I had the advantage of going to an experimental Deweyite school that was quite good. There was no competition.??”
—Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent
“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.” —Stanley Kubrick

Censorship

You limit what can be shown. You give people a narrowed perspective.

Parental Control

Parents need to be able to block what their children have access to. It’s for their own good.
+ Censorship

Propoganda / Public Relations

Ways of appealing to people that are illogical but effective. Eg. more women, speakers with different accents, not showing military personnel in uniform, using more intellectuals, stressing emotional connections, criticizing opposition leaders, all these things go into your message and boost its appeal. You get spokespeople on the air and get them talking.

Anti-Food Ads

I bought some avacados a while back that had little stickers on them advertising a movie or something. If you haven’t seen ads on your fruit yet, just wait. You will.
By looking at our ads, you agree to buy the products.