An advertisement is a message printed in a newspaper, or broadcast to individuals, that attempts to persuade consumers to buy a specific product, or agree with a particular idea.1. The average American is exposed to 247 commercial messages each day. Many Americans are affected by advertising, and often are persuaded to buy products they don't need or are unhealthy. These Americans are seen as every advertiser's target.
             Advertising messages are spread through numerous and varied channels of media. In descending order of amount, the major media are newspapers, television, direct mail, radio, magazines, business publications, outdoor advertising, and farm publications.2. In addition, a significant amount of all advertising is invested in miscellaneous media, such as window displays, free shopping-news publications, calendars, blimps, sky writing by airplanes, and even sandwich boards carried by people walking the streets.
             Advertising supports the mass communication media. Daily news shows, soap operas, and the 7 p.m. specials are all paid for by advertisers. Because newspapers and television shows are very expensive to generate, producers hold space for commercials or article space. Seventy-five percent of the cost of newspapers and magazines are paid for by advertisements. In the year 1900 the amount of money spent on advertising averaged about 450 million dollars. In 1995 the average had raised 357.6% to $160,920,000,000.
             Because the mass media depend on advertising, many people question whether advertisers control media. Generally media do not allow advertisers to influence their programming or editorial content, but many broadcasters and publishers do not hesitate to run favorable information about there sponsors, and sometimes refuse to run unfavorable or negative content about host advertisers.2. Many times' "bad" news about an advertiser is ignored, but not to the extremes. In short time a news repor...