Scenario 4-1 A Group Called Adbusters Has a Website Containing Many Pages

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Scenario 4-1
A group called Adbusters has a website containing many pages that address issues of consumption and culture, media practices, and corporate responsibilities. For example, "The momentum has clearly accelerated. By some measures humans have used more physical resources since World War II than in all of history before it. It's now taking a toll beyond anything we could ever have imagined. What does it mean when one sixth of the world's population consumes without any real restraint?" Throughout the website, there are many references to advertising's role in creating and maintaining this situation. Not surprisingly, virtually all of the references to the practice of advertising are negative. 
-(Scenario 4-1) Organizations like Adbusters see advertising as superficial.This view of advertising says that it: 

• A) is not entertaining, or even interesting, to consumers. 
• B) has no effect on demand for specific brands of products. 
• C) offers little information based on function or performance. 
• D) ignores the hedonic aspects of products.

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