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Postal Hucksters

September 2, 2010
How marketing overlords ruined the charm of my local post office.

Even Dead Celebrities Sell

July 13, 2009
Ad Nauseam chronicles the manipulative pathologies of advertising culture.

The Pink Ribbon Juggernaut

June 5, 2008
Book explores how corporate marketers seized control of breast cancer activism

Gary Ruskin

Submitted by admin on February 21, 2008 - 2:00am
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Director, Commercial Alert; activist challenging marketing abuses in schools and to children; corporate naming of stadia and civic places; and other commercial excesses.

Location: 
Portland, Oregon
Organizations: 
Commercial Alert
Website: 
http://www.commercialalert.org
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children
advertising
marketing
naming rights
commercialism
PR
captive audiences
Arts and Culture
Media and Internet
Politics and Government

Agents of Distrust

July 6, 2006

How to Create a Real Ownership Society

April 6, 2006
As the right promotes a corporate-controlled vision of an "ownership society," other observers explore what a true ownership society would look like.

The Commercialization of Chit-Chat

December 7, 2004
Companies want to control word-of-mouth in order to push their products. That enthusiastic recommendation from a friend may have been a paid commercial message.