Blinking, prodding, whispering, yelling
Saturday, August 4th, 2007 11:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serai.
Over HERE, at PBS.org, you can view a fascinating Frontline documentary called The Persuaders, about the advertising industry and the immense changes it has wrought in our culture. It talks about how advertisers are no longer content to just sell you stuff; they are now aiming at recreating the world, enveloping all of us in a "second skin" that lines the reality we live in. But a problem is thereby created: the more ads suffuse our lives, the less attention we are wont to pay to them.
This is first-rate stuff, and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the nearly insane vagaries of 21st century media-driven culture.
As for me, it reinforces a central development of my last ten years: I am SO FUCKING GLAD I no longer have TV.
Over HERE, at PBS.org, you can view a fascinating Frontline documentary called The Persuaders, about the advertising industry and the immense changes it has wrought in our culture. It talks about how advertisers are no longer content to just sell you stuff; they are now aiming at recreating the world, enveloping all of us in a "second skin" that lines the reality we live in. But a problem is thereby created: the more ads suffuse our lives, the less attention we are wont to pay to them.
This is first-rate stuff, and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the nearly insane vagaries of 21st century media-driven culture.
As for me, it reinforces a central development of my last ten years: I am SO FUCKING GLAD I no longer have TV.
