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Written for The Activists and can be found here . (They have also published the two other articles I wrote for them, which they titled " The Capitalist Media Manipulates Information to Serve the Interests of the Ruling Elites " and " The Revolution Will Come When Parents and Children Learn That There is More to Life Than Blind Consumerism ". I titled them " Enter the Media " and " The Revolution ".) Every second of every hour of every day, we are bombarded by advertisements. We cannot click on a link without seeing advertisements for cheap loans; we cannot watch television without adverts telling us about the wonders of this shampoo or that drain cleaner - even our films and TV shows sneak in product placement! Listening to the radio, it sometimes seem as if there are more advertisements than there is music; it is increasingly difficult to tell the difference between the two. Newspapers and magazines are bulked out with adverts, and a worrying...