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You're very naive to think there's no manipulation in ads.

• bwb 4y ago
  They don't manipulate, they sell. Huge difference. Fox news manipulates... ads sell.
  • teolandon 4y ago
    They sell by manipulating people into buying. Seriously stop being naive. Coca Cola doesn't need to raise awareness of its product, it's in every fridge ever. The ads are not there to inform people that Coca Cola exists, they're there to manipulate people into buying Coca Cola.
    • bwb 4y ago
      It is a mis use of the word :) Sell not manipulation
  • Stupulous 4y ago
    Are you so easily convinced you believe whatever political opinion Fox News is selling? The dictionary says that to manipulate is to 'control or influence (a person or situation) cleverly, unfairly, or unscrupulously.' If you want to tack on 'when they're not selling products" for your personal use, be my guest, but then 'advertising isn't manipulation' is tautologous. And you really should have brought up that you have a special, secret definition when you told someone point blank that advertising wasn't it.