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• Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales.
• Buy me and you will overcome the anxieties I have just reminded you of
• If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous.…
• Advertising is much less powerful than advertisers and critics of advertising claim, and advertising agencies are stabbing in the dark much more…
• Objectivity, in this sense, means that a person's statements about the world can be trusted if they are submitted to established rules…
• If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art.
• Advertising generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them.
• It is very likely that many firms spend more on advertising than, for their own best interests, they should.
• Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.
• Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public.
• It should be apparent that the belief in objectivity in journalism, as in other professions, is not just a claim about what…
• The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.

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