{"id":12275,"date":"2009-08-18T10:01:29","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T15:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=12275"},"modified":"2012-10-17T02:49:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T07:49:35","slug":"public-service-announcements-vs-advertising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/08\/18\/public-service-announcements-vs-advertising\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Service Announcements Vs. Advertising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a list of 15 contrasting billboards on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/mjs538\/15-billboards-that-dont-belong-next-to-each-other\" target=\"_blank\">Buzzfeed<\/a>, I found these three:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12277\" title=\"Picture1\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/08\/Picture1.png\" alt=\"Picture1\" width=\"503\" height=\"355\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12278\" title=\"Picture2\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/08\/Picture2.png\" alt=\"Picture2\" width=\"547\" height=\"385\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12279\" title=\"Picture3\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/08\/Picture3.png\" alt=\"Picture3\" width=\"603\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I usually think of public service announcements as a form of education.\u00a0 Presumably there&#8217;s a harmful ignorance out there somewhere that can be corrected.\u00a0 But these contrasts bring into stark relief the fact that public service announcements aren&#8217;t only fighting ignorance, they&#8217;re fighting corporations.\u00a0 The battle isn&#8217;t just between misinformation and information, it&#8217;s between for-profit and non-profit organizations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Wade is a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\/followers\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Lisa-Wade-PhD\/174350419354908\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a list of 15 contrasting billboards on Buzzfeed, I found these three: I usually think of public service announcements as a form of education.\u00a0 Presumably there&#8217;s a harmful ignorance out there somewhere that can be corrected.\u00a0 But these contrasts bring into stark relief the fact that public service announcements aren&#8217;t only fighting ignorance, they&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[244,252,23703,212,23704,1890],"class_list":["post-12275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fat","tag-healthmedicine","tag-marketing","tag-alcohol","tag-public-service-announcements","tag-smokingtobacco"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12275"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51930,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12275\/revisions\/51930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}