Ann Mcclintock I think is a very smart woman who knows what she is talking about. This is apparent from her school and examples she uses in her writings. Advertising has a huge impact on the people today. There is so many different ways companies can lure you into buying their products. Mcclintock outlines them very well in this reading. I like that she used a lot of examples when trying to explain the 7 different ways. It allowed me to understand more on what she was trying to say. I truthfully think that all this advertising is bad for us. I think there should be set guidelines that every company has to go by if they want to advertise. This would stop the false assumptions made from the false advertising that is found on TV. The main idea of this passage was to describe propaganda and how much it effects our daily life. Propaganda usually is associated with a totaltarian regime that’s trying to brainwash its citizens to do what they say. Propaganda is usually associated with the political arena. I think that they should stop those political ads on TV there never telling the truth and can only hurt America.
Stefan, I can agree completely with your ideas about corporations having to meet certain guidelines as to how they advertise. Advertisements these days make people just want to buy everything they see even if they do not need it. Political ads are ridiculous because most of them are pointless. The people running make the ads so people can vote for them but really what does that do? We don’t know if that person is actually telling the truth or not because we are swayed and seduced by the ad itself rather than the person in the ad. Propaganda is hurting people in their everyday lives and it should be stopped or at least changed in some way.
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