http://banapana.com This is your mind on media. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:07:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://banapana.com/fabertising/new-category http://banapana.com/fabertising/new-category#comments Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:59:25 +0000 Russell Warner http://banapana.com/?p=485 This last week I have seen some pretty strange things going on with advertising, and even though I generally put posts on advertising into the Mind Control section of the sight (because it is all just propaganda) it seems to me that it would be a good idea to introduce a new section: Fabertising.  That’s Fab- as in fabrication and -ertising as in you know, “shoving bullshit down your throat.”  I would love to call the section bullshitising, but the icon for that would be grisly.  I think there’s enough manipulation of the facts in commercially developed communications directed at the public that focusing on it should generate more than a few worthy posts.  I’m also going to put summations of research here on how exactly advertising manipulates you into bad choices.

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