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Mixing advertising messages with "informational
news" - a cunningly unethical practice aiming at deceiving
and taking advantage of our kids' vulnerability.
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Mixing up all of the following
with one purpose -- to make riders to purchase their
products & services
- news?
- information?
- advice?
- belief?
- conjectures
- facts
- opinion of spokesperson?
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Fact: Just a piece of advertisement
aiming to influence riders to addict to their products
or services. |
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Fact: Part of the scheme
of the advertiser |
Riders, in particular
children, are presented with AV information aiming only to serve
the secret agenda of the powerful who has the means to force
messages onto riders while they are traveling on buses in Hong
Kong.
News
or advertisement?
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Such practice
has been outlawed in other countries, Even such practices
have been frowned upon in Shenzhen. |
One advertising professional comments:
"Viewing audience tends to believe that
what they are seeing is what has really happened, probably
because it comes as news and not as advertisements trying
to sell something." |
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| "Every
tyrant knows that it is important, ... not only to constrain
people's actions but also to manipulate their desires ..." |
One
researcher has found:
"[E]specially troubling in light of evidence that, beginning
in infancy and continuing through life, the things we see and
read profoundly alter the kinds of people we become." |
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