Source B
Kuze, Darren. Free Advertising. Harper: Boston, 2011. Print
Kuze, Darren. Free Advertising. Harper: Boston, 2011. Print
The following
paragraph is from a book about how advertising helps consumers make informed
decisions.
Advertising has a positive role to
play in modern society, helping us choose between competing goods. Many adverts
are drawing our attention to products with new features, for example more
powerful computers, telephones which are also cameras and music players, or
foods with added vitamins. Other adverts try to compete on price, helping us
seek out the cheapest or best value products. In most cases advertising does
not make us go shopping – we would be planning to buy food, clothes, gifts and
entertainment anyway. What advertising does is to help us make better decisions
about how to spend our money, by giving us more information about the choices
available.