Bombarded
In today’s society people are bombarded with thousands of advertisements. Whether it’s billboards, letters or magazines, you can’t escape the long arm of advertisement. The most influential medium for this pervasive onslaught has to be the television. In an article I read called “Selling Discontent, “ by Anna White she points out that Americans are targeted with over three-thousand commercial advertisements each day. I found it disturbing how much companies are spending to make consumers feel dissatisfied. The effect of this is that consumers want to go out and buy things they don’t have and don’t need. Everyday we see meaningless advertisements that are not actually appealing . But out of the millions of ads, there is always one that does appeal and this is because the ad has hit a certain target. Do you ever wonder when you get a phone call or read through your mail how companies seem to know a lot about you or what your interests are? This is because when ever you send out information, for example like a rebate or warranties for electronics or computers, marketers will use all this information a way of advertisement in the future. Now the companies will have the upper h
Remember back in the early nineteen hundreds, out in the west when towns would post signs of villains and they would read “ WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE!” Well, this is how this advertisement is coming across attracting more and more people to it. As I looked down the page starting from left to right they had a pack of Winstons, then a pack of Lucky Strikes, then a pack of Camels and last a pack of Marlboros. I thought to myself, why would all these popular brands of cigarettes be so dull looking? Each pack has no color to them and are all black and white, maybe to promote death? As I kept going down the advertisement it read “Join thousands of other smokers…. Claim your reward today!” Then right below that it says “After trying a sample carton, smokers across the nation report they’ve switched to Natural American Spirit!” When you think about it how much of all this propaganda can be true? Now in the bottom right of the page there is a pack of Natural American Spirit. This pack was in color. It was bright blue with red. This was the only object on the whole page that actually caught your eye. The last little detail on the page under the Natural American pack is a sentence saying “For a sample CARTON call 1-800-872-6460.”
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