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Public Discourse

Public Discourse

According to the article written by Neil Postman and Steve Powers a picture is worth a thousand words and a word can be worth a thousand pictures (p.412). Advertisements play a strong role in manipulating its audiences feelings. The advertisement may take something you in vision happening and put it in front of your face. This is all tied in with Langer ideas on the signs and symbols article that was previously read. Signs are a method used to portray one definition for something, and symbols can be portrayed to mean a huge variety of different meanings.
Danny Schechter’s article is focused on whether or not advertisements is reaching today’s youth. I believe ...

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image to grab your attention as the viewer. The viewer will be more inclined to remember what the news broadcaster was wearing and what they looked like rather than what news they were actually talking about.
In this article Schechter references Al Gores proposal to launch a liberal television channel directed towards the youth, but does not state if he believes this will grad the younger generations attention. He leaves this door wide open this is a proposal for the reader to decide and or ponder the idea. Researchers have discovered why the television commercials are directed towards the older generations rather than the youth, this is because the youth does not pay attention to the news or what is going on in society. The youth are more focused on television shows that try to portray the fantasy world in which they would rather live in more so than the reality. Shows like this that are on television now a days I find are mostly on MTV. Which is directed towards the ...

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Added: 4/4/2011 02:56:45 PM
Submitted By: tinashiflett
Category: Social Issues
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