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Opening this handbook, looking at the first pages, it's full of advertisements. How could you trust this handbook to be objective enough to assist you in forgin
by yohann305 8y ago
Opening this handbook, looking at the first pages, it's full of advertisements. How could you trust this handbook to be objective enough to assist you in forging your educational path?!
- occams_chainsaw 8y agoAds don't mean something is no longer objective. If they were putting forward information about the companies advertising in the material, then sure, but that isn't the case here
- raister 8y agoOur society is run by advertisements; google gets revenue from it, facebook as well, instagram, youtube, you name it. Big companies will always invest large sums of money in marketing, as well as governments and even small companies - the spectrum of people willing to spend money in advertisement was, is, and will ever be, very large.
- todd8 8y agoI think I understand why the two ads are there, Siemens and iBoss would like MIT students to consider applying for employment, but how would this invalidate the information in the handbook? The contents of the handbook look pretty objective to me. Isn't the presence of the two ads in the handbook a bit like University placement offices allowing employers to recruit from the University campus? University career fairs have all sorts of employers on campus promoting their companies as places to work.