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Advertisers’ image of housewives’ leisure time: 1926 American Laundry Machinery Company ad campaign in The Saturday Evening Post

Posted on January 11, 2014 by tccorrigan1

In his chapter “Advertising as Social Tableaux”, Roland Marchand discusses a 1926 American Laundry Machinery Company campaign in The Saturday Evening Post. Marchand uses the ads to illustrate advertisers’ presumptions about what housewives wanted to use their leisure time for. … Continue reading →

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Up with Chris Hayes: Media monopolies thrive as local newspapers fold

Posted on October 6, 2012 by tccorrigan1

A great three-segment discussion of newspapers monopolies and the often powerful corporate interests behind them. Could pair with news media concentration readings like Bagdikian’s The New Media Monopoly, Jhally’s The Political Economy of Culture (p. 45 here), Chapter 1 in McChesney’s Political … Continue reading →

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