• Paragone@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    You may never have heard of the AAAA, the Advertisers Against Advertising Alliance…


    Imagine a cigarette-company wants some advertising-work done…

    Imagine that you’re dead set against cigarette-companies, but they don’t know that…

    Imagine getting the contract, & doing advertising-design for them, where they get an advertising-campaign which to them looks good, but … doesn’t work on people

    Imagine that that is exactly what you had intended…

    No card-carrying, no meetings, no visible-connections: only independent people contributing independently.

    ( I suspect that the drugstore “Life” brand, at Shopper’s Drug Mart was done by a member of the AAAA: NOBODY with health-sense would buy that shit, as a result of the campaign they had, years ago, when I lived in a city )


    Now remap it from AAAA to someone ordered to redact evil, to protect the regime against accountability…

    Imagine you know exactly that this highlighting-with-black won’t work…

    Imagine that this is exactly why you use the method: to protect accountability, in a dying-empire’s deathspasms…

    It then becomes possible to “do one’s job” & be complicit within the regime ( but notice those falsifying-quotes! ),

    while one protects integrity, Justice, & accountability, by doing one’s “job” in a way which enables actual-Journalism, should there be any left, to dig-in…


    Beauty, eh?

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