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MadHound

(34,179 posts)

1. This is nothing new,

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Sun Feb 3, 2013, 02:14 PM

Feb 2013

They found the same thing in studies thirty and forty years ago. We are awash in corporate propaganda, and most of us succumb to it in one form or another.

The sad thing is, products would be much cheaper if it weren't for the costs of advertising and packaging.

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imprinted: kids' brains 'branded' with fast-food logos [View all] xchrom Feb 2013 OP

This is nothing new, MadHound Feb 2013 #1

In the late Fifties/early Sixties, kids knew the manufacturers no_hypocrisy Feb 2013 #4

All the more reason to keep commercial tv away from kids dixiegrrrrl Feb 2013 #2

It's a Pavlovian response kudzu22 Feb 2013 #3

I have posted about regulating advertising to children on DU & been attacked. KittyWampus Feb 2013 #5

Agreed jollyreaper2112 Feb 2013 #6