Let's Push the Limits of Good Taste, Shall We?

[I Will Deny You]

I'm not going to take an official position just yet, but I was wondering how much advertising everyone thinks is too much.
When people wear brand-name clothing and have advertisements printed on their chests, is that too much?
When we have a single advertisement in a newspaper, is that too much?
When we have billboards on buses, trains and roadsides, is that too much?
When AOL CDs come in the mail, is that too much?
When Pepsi and Coke "sponsor" schools, is that too much?
When $100,000,000,000 is spent on advertising every year, is that too much?

[Markxs]

every cent that is spend on advertising is to much. that money could help the ppl who we stole it from first. that is all poor ppl.

[Sasafrás]

My high school is sponsored by IBM (yet almost all of our computers are hideously inferior). I believe the sole purpose is to give IBM some sort of 'goodwill' or a positive image with the community.

I don't necessarily think that wearing brand-name clothing is 'too much' but it's definitely not something I'd choose to do for myself. I don't see how someone could wear somebody else's name on their chest.

The newspaper is a haven for advertisements. I'm in a marketing class and we have just covered the entire aspect of advertising. Advertising (obviously) is extremely expensive and newspapers, magazines, television, and radio are entirely too full of advertisements. I can't even take a train or bus or ride down the freeway without feeling like businesses & corporations are trying to infiltrate my mind and force me to consume things.

I go into the shopping mall (that's bad enough) and right next to the door, there is a huge box full of 'Free AOL!' CD-roms.

Everything is too much.

[munkey soup]

go to http://www.adbusters.org

Advertising is the porn of Capatilism!! Show people they are missing the line between "need" and want.

[Supermodel]

Advertising is just information. All the so-called editorial (i.e., the opposite of advertising, or the content, of the media) is just advertising disguised as independent thought.

Anyway, what would supermodels do without the advertising business? Heh?? Stumped you there, didn't I??? Where's my Chanel-won't-rub-off-$25-a-tube-rip-off-french-crap-bourgeois-ladiesroom-give-me-a-break-you-snob-lipstick.....