Jean Kilbourne What Are Advertisers Really Selling Us

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Media is a piece of our regular life, media is communication channel for instance: TV programs, motion pictures, the radio, daily papers, and web, through which we get information for example, news, entertainment and so on in these distinctive types of media men and ladies are spoken to in diverse routes, with distinctive qualities, and these impact our discernment on what a man or a lady is. The article's examination "What are promoters truly offering us?" permits me to see how the aggregate and oblivious effect of these media messages can add to constraining the improvement of a child’s potential especially girls.
Author jean kilbourne gave a lecture on “what are advertisers are really selling us” in this presentation She explores the relationship

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