> "Only in the last century, and especially in the decades since the fall of the Soviet Union, has the advertising industry grown into this massive all-encompassing behemoth."
The irony that a person writes this sentence, and then illustrates his writing solely with advertisements from the early 20th and late 19th centuries.
My god we're talking only 32 years ago. Sure it's not his living memory, but come on. Talk about not even looking at the pictures in a history book, let alone reading a history book.
You can tell from this the author has not read Manufacturing Consent and if they had not read that book, I question the relevancy of their opinions on this topic.
The irony that a person writes this sentence, and then illustrates his writing solely with advertisements from the early 20th and late 19th centuries.
My god we're talking only 32 years ago. Sure it's not his living memory, but come on. Talk about not even looking at the pictures in a history book, let alone reading a history book.