Re:Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a ...
by sjy on Monday January 31, 2022 @03:16PM
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> “It is inconceivable,” said Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce, at the first national radio conference in 1922, “that we should allow so great a possibility for service, for news, for entertainment, for education, and for vital commercial purposes to be drowned in advertising chatter.” Hoover’s remarks reflected the accepted wisdom of the times: that advertising on radio was unacceptable … According to a report of the first conference, all agreed that “direct advertising in radio broadcasting service [should] be absolutely prohibited.”
Tim Wu, The Master Switch (2011), chapter 5
Fixed that for you ;)
Like, I remember growing up absolutely surrounded by advertising. It was on the TV, it was on the radio, it was in newspapers and magazines. Literally every second page in a magazine was ads! It was crazy. I grew up with it (as did many of you).
What were the major level societal consequences of this shift? And when did it begin? Was radio just as bad in the 30's?
Are newspapers where it went wrong? Man, at that point we may as well go the whole way and blame the industrial revolution ;)
More generally, advertising is a consequence of the economic system we've (somewhat) collectively as a species decided we want to achieve our goals. I doubt the first urban dwellers expected the vast new cities to be hives of disease, either, but them's the breaks.