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Choire Sicha on Media Literacy

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October 8, 2009

Stealth marketing, direct advertisement and product placement work only on the clueless, and our immersive, hippo-like wallowing in the marketplace serves only to make us resistant to these viral contagions. Because the more we are sold to — and, believe it, we are being pitched every minute — the more immune we are to it all.

via Op-Ed Contributor – Blogged and Sold – NYTimes.com.

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