2. Advertising: Selling a Message Resource Textbook: Ralph E. Hanson, Mass Communication: Living in a Media World Comic: Duty Calls, http://xkcd.com/386/
Advertising makes possible a vast array f inexpensive media available worldwide. Advertising drives the size and diversity of the world’s economy. Advertising has been a key element of the American economy and culture of consumption and acquisition for more than 100 years and has existed before the USA was a nation.