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Term Paper Title	Advertising
# of Words	1056
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	4.22

Advertising

[Category]:

business

[Paper Title]:

Advertising

[Text]:

Mass Communication Process Thesis Paper Advertising (Chapter 11) Advertising
is a necessary market force that is responsible for the success of most, and
involved in all, forms of Multimedia. It is also responsible for some of our
most powerful and long-living icons that dominate the American landscape.
Advertising, like it or not, is everywhere. It is on buses, billboards and
hot-air balloons. It invades our living rooms, our classrooms and almost every
aspect of human life. The average American is exposed to 115 advertisements
during their morning commute. With this much exposure to the consumer market,
one wonders weather or not this is good or bad for the population at large. Not
surprisingly, professionals have disputed advertising’s effect across the
globe. In this paper I do not want to look at the effects of advertising as much
as the techniques in which the advertisers choose to convey their message. I
intend to argue and support that the several techniques used by advertisers are
underhanded and, in some cases, downright unethical. Advertisers use several
different techniques for selling products. One can analyze these as persuasive
techniques. This first point summarizes the oldest and most conventional
persuasive techniques Most are considered perfectly ethical at first glance, but
when you examine them further, things are not always as they appear. Two of
these techniques include the plain-folks pitch, and snob appeal. These two
techniques are used quite often. Both hope to attract your attention by getting
you to establish a need for the products. In the Plain-folks pitch, advertisers
try to make things appear much simpler than they are. An example of a typical
Plain-folks pitch is Toyota’s current pitch, “Everyday”; as in everyday
people drive Toyota cars. The Snob approach, on the other hand tries to make you
believe that upon the purchase of their product you will be accepted into the
elitist society in which you always aspired to be a part of. These
advertisements are used when advertising most luxury items. Another approach is
the Bandwagon effect. This approach preys on the “keeping up with the Jones”
fear that most people possess. It also relates to the feeling that if it is good
enough for the majority of my peers, it must be good enough for me. Finally, and
perhaps the most unethical technique is the hidden fear approach. This technique
preys on people’s fear...

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