It is true that advertising often gives information and is … - Randal Marlin

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It is true that advertising often gives information and is valuable for doing so, but some forms of advertising give precious little information, and even that little is wrong.

Randal Marlin

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Randal Marlin (born 1938) is an American-born Canadian philosophy professor at Carleton University in Ottawa who specializes in the study of propaganda.

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Edward Bernays Noam Chomsky Jacques Ellul Robert B. Cialdini Julian Assange

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In a general way, a major goal of the propagandist is to seek some kind of authoritative backing for the belief he or she is propagating.

The specific media my change, but the principles of human nature have remained fairly constant over the millenia.

Any restrictions to freedom of expression will always open the door to possible others, because analogical reasoning can mount arguments showing why this or that class of objects is closely similar to those for which exceptions have been made.

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