Over the last 15 years, ad expenditures have jumped 50 per cent as advertisers have intensified their efforts to get their ads before our eyes. Few areas of life are exempt. Ads proliferate in schools and museums. Buses appear in the shape of a Dunkin Donuts box.
Advertisers dream aloud of producing laser commercials in the sky.
The acceleration of global environmental destruction as America's high-consumption lifestyle is beamed around the world into every village and hamlet. The decline of civic culture and social responsibility. At special risk are schools, museums, and the news media - institutions to which generations of citizens have looked for accurate and independent views of reality. The Captive Audience Cash-strapped schools are especially vulnerable to advertisers seeking to deliver captive audiences of young people to their clients. Young people are more prone to impulse-buying, and they buy a lot.