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Originally Posted by VydorScope
The gist of this thread as been that print/tv does not influence people. The advertising industry is proof that they do influence people.
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No, that's not been the gist of the thread. The gist of it is that if your going to claim that certain things have certain effects, there needs to be evidence for that claim. There's plenty of evidence for the effect advertising has, but that doesn't mean that other effects must be real.