Advertising Quote by Michael Schudson

Expensive, well-executed, and familiar ads convince the investors, as nothing in the black and white tables of assets and debits can, that the company…

— Michael Schudson

Objectivity, in this sense, means that a person's statements about the world can be trusted if they are submitted to established rules deemed legitimate…

— Michael Schudson

It should be apparent that the belief in objectivity in journalism, as in other professions, is not just a claim about what kind of…

— Michael Schudson

If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is…

— Michael Schudson

If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art.

— Michael Schudson

The story of journalism, on a day-to-day basis, is the story of the interaction of reporters and officials

— Michael Schudson

Even if, as is generally the case, everything that the ad says about the product is scrupulously honest, or at any rate scrupulously avoids…

— Michael Schudson

Different groups are differentially vulnerable to advertising; and their vulnerability varies not so much with the character or quantity of advertisements as with the…

— Michael Schudson

“Riding an omnibus or street railway was a novel experience. For the first time in human history, people other than the very wealthy could,…

— Michael Schudson

“But into the first decades of the twentieth century, even at the New York Times, it was uncommon for journalists to see a sharp…

— Michael Schudson

Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales.

— Michael Schudson

Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public.

— Michael Schudson