does advertising does more harm than good?
i doing a debate in my speach class next wednesday, and i have to convince my opponents that advertising does more harm than good. can you please help me.
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I think advertising does do more harm than good – most benefits are exagerrated and when it comes to celebrity- it appears any publicity (a form of advertising) no matter how ridiculous. is good publicity….what have we come to ?
Try these ideas: advertising drives the selection of just about everything we currently see in the media. This is why there are so few television shows attractive to the “older set” – programmers aim to attract those in the 18-49 age range as they believe that they spend the most (or the advertisers manipulate their children into driving their parents crazy until the parents (18-49) buy them whatever has caught their eye.) The Internet virtually does not work without advertising. The goal of every free website is to get enough “hits” to then be able to charge for advertising, therefore making a nice profit. Cable TV was originally sold as commercial-free TV. While this may sound like we have lots of benefits of advertising, it actually works as a type of filter to what gets produced. Selections of what content is produced is driven by the advertising dollars it can generate. Productions with artistic or other value that may
not appeal to the masses are relegated to small cable channels, or not produced at all. Then there’s the effects of advertising on eating habits, tobacco use, alcoholism, and by extension our health and safety. Is political advertising really helpful, or at best a twisting of the truth (as can happen with virtually all advertising?) I think you get the idea. Google “advertising effects” and if you need book references look up advertising textbooks and psychology textbooks may have a short section about the effects of advertising and human behavior, in addition to appropriate sections in your school library (ask your librarian for help.) Periodicals have printed interesting articles on this from time to time. To do this well you will have to spend some time with research, crafting your speech to be in a logical order of progression, and interspersed with humor or interesting facts to keep your audience interested. Good luck!
P.S. Don’t forget to write down all the information you will need for your “works cited” as you collect your information. The best way is to write everything on cards that you can rearrange to form the shape of your speech. But at least remember to get all the info you will need while you have the source in front of you. It’s impossible to backtrack later! And if this is a debate, you may be challenged on the strength of your sources. Please know that you will most likely not be graded on whether you win the debate, but on how many strong creditable sources you can find to back up your statements, and how you present it. Teachers know that some positions are easier to argue than others. It may help you to have the harder one if you do your best.s
No. Advertising is wonderful. It pays for free TV and for free websites, tells you about new products, and educates us about the wonders of technology. It provides employment for millions of people.If it was not for advertising, you probably wouldn’t have this free place to answer questions
Thnx Dreyfus, i’m aigainst advertising, but my role in this debate is to convince them and make them believe that advertising is not good, i have been doing some research but can’t seem to get an answer, i need some negativity about advertising plz………..