How do politicians and advertisers manipulate us?
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Most easily through our emotions!
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Quite simple actually. In order to get elected, they require campaign donations. While most private citizens give these out of the goodness of their hearts, corporations and special interest groups do it to further their own interests. It's an investment to them. The larger the donation, the more ads they can run. The more ads they run, the greater their chance of winning.\n\n  Then, after they win, they have a list of "favors" that need to be repaid.\n\n  Consider this: George Bush's largest corporate campaign contributors were financial service companies, defense contractors, and pharmaceutical companies. From this we got the Social Security privatization plan, the Iraq War, and Medicaid Prescription drug plan.
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All those little ads on the top and sides of your screen. Also when you search they collect information about you and that becomes valuable targeted advertising.
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What the Man wants you to know!\n\nIf it's from your government it's public information.\n\nIf it's from someone else's government it's propaganda.
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Yes, advertisers do it and I call it lying. Politicians often do it too.  Religious people do it,  but they don't know any better.  Understatement is closer to the truth.
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bribes, sexual favors, etc
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Because you allow your government to sell you their story, which leads to a (mostly) blind public that supports the acts they despise. Public relations executives in the white house are responsible for this deceit, like George Bush's favourite personal advisor, Karl Rove. Gocernments and corporations are working together more than ever to mutually increase financial benefit, with a pathological persuit of profit and power.
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both.  Politicians initially turn to the public and their interests to shape the groundwork for their arguements.  Then, as the politicans gain more power, they start manipulating the public's views into their own agenda, gradually making the public believe it's true (for instance, the republicans saw the growing evangelical movement, and started to incorporate religion into their speeches until, eventually the public believes that religion and politics are connected.  This in turn fuels the politicians' support of the evangelical movement, it's a cycle)
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most of these Ad's are fake.\nalot of press has identified the proposal to \nbe false, and not Legal.\n we recommend to Not get involved with any of\nit
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Of course it's manipulation. Any form of exacting control over someone else's behavior requires a level of manipulation when the two parties are not of equal intelligence to negotiate a desired outcome.
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I understand your theory but do not believe it to be true. Dirty politics's have been used by both party's for years, and it just depends on the delivery as to whether it is effective or not.
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Yes, it is. Not just food, but almost all ads. I don't think stronger control will work. Advertising people always know what to do to manipulate. They do researches to find out consumers expectation. Ads are made based on what they found. Ads describe details people like to hear and see. Negative things that the law make them have to be stated are usually hidden in very small letters. Educate the audience not to believe everything advertised is more important.
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Sounds like your doing some finger pointing yourself.  Politicians are always blaming someone else.  Misdirection is the name of the game.
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Celebs. should stay out of politics and stick to what they know.  How to deceive people
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That is usually how it works, unfortunately. Individuals that can draw lots of attention to themselves (even if it is NEGATIVE) are the dreams of ad agencies.
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the only thhing we can do is be a good influence ourselves, and we can have an effect on politics, by voting, running, politicing, etc. but i agree as far as faith / beliefs go, it is such an individual journey no one can tell you your truth...
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METACOMMUNICATION\n\nEvery advertisement carries both a message (a meaningful content) as well as a command about how to interpret the message. The command portion of the message "positions the receiver to adopt a particular attitude towards the report." Herein lies the rub, for viewers do not merely decode content, they also react to being positioned. As viewers accumulate experiences of interpreting ads they develop "vocabularies of motive" with which they negotiate the ways that ads address them. (Herskovitz, 1979; Bateson, 1972).\n\n--\nSee source for more info and thank you for asking i find this interesting my self. Cheerio