Persuading the Public

Duration: 15

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1978

Creator: Columbia Broadcasting System

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Illustrates, with humorous episodes of an advertising agency and a political ad campaign, that most public persuasion techniques attempt to sell products, ideas, or people by focusing on positive attributes while downplaying negative qualities. Identifies the most important aspects of advertising as the use of repetition, association, composition, omission, diversion, and confusion.

Complete Record: Illustrates, with humorous episodes of an advertising agency and a political ad campaign, that most public persuasion techniques attempt to sell products, ideas, or people by focusing on positive attributes while downplaying negative qualities. Identifies the most important aspects of advertising as the use of repetition, association, composition, omission, diversion, and confusion., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.


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