How Fear and Outrage Are Sold for Profit

Re:How Fear and Outrage Are Sold for Profit by branchless on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @11:32PM (#14853499)

I have no TV. When I see an advert if I'm round someone's house or something like this, when you have not seen adverts for a while, they just look ridiculous. Some person telling you with utmost urgency about something so trivial.

I don't know why this is, but when you step back and are not used to adverts, when you do see them they just seem so transparently pathetic.

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Re:How Fear and Outrage Are Sold for Profit by sjclemmy on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @01:54AM (#14853920)

I turn the sound off when ads come on. I am always completely bewildered by them.

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Re:How Fear and Outrage Are Sold for Profit by visarga on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @02:11AM (#14853973)

Used to do that too, when I was watching TV. It's strange how the perspective changes with no sound. You can block your sight by looking elsewhere, but you can't stop from hearing an open TV or radio. If you cut the sound, you cut their teeth.

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