> The rant is written as though advertisers snuck into the media, as though they infiltrated, they used subterfuge to penetrate an otherwise non-commercial, innocent world of dollar-free self-expression.
Apparently you never used the web in the old days? It was a "non-commercial innocent world of dollar-free self-expression".
> Advertisers and the advertising industry were the parents and premise of this world.
They absolutely were not. Web sites existed without ads and without sponsorship and they still can.
It's as if you are claiming that record studios invented music.
Apparently you never used the web in the old days? It was a "non-commercial innocent world of dollar-free self-expression".
> Advertisers and the advertising industry were the parents and premise of this world.
They absolutely were not. Web sites existed without ads and without sponsorship and they still can.
It's as if you are claiming that record studios invented music.