That's what I think as well: tax it. Problem is: it has become very hard to distinguish advertising from other forms of communications. I think there should be

That's what I think as well: tax it. Problem is: it has become very hard to distinguish advertising from other forms of communications. I think there should be some form of blanket tax on all forms of communications (billboards, web, magazines, newspapers etc) and part of the tax income should be spend to compensate for the negative effects of advertising: i.e. educate people based on scientific facts and subsidise real journalists, public tv, quality newspapers. Of course there is no good way of implementing this. Advertising happens on a worldwide scale and no government (except north korea, who have this problem under control already) can implement it. Besides: advertisers own politics, it will never happen.