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There is something of a parasitic quality about advertising. It feeds on the organisms of noncommercial culture - the culture's past and present, ideology and myths, politics and customs, art and architecture, literature and music, and even its religions.... For example, women are commodified to sell everything from cars to colognes.... Advertising thus pimps its products.

Ronald K. L. Collins

Historically, it was thought that the sole or primary enemy of free expression was the State. Today, the consequences of commercial communication reveal that the private captains of the advertising empire may prove to be an enemy of equal stature.

Ronald K. L. Collins

Ronald K. L. Collins

Ronald K. L. Collins

Born: 1949 (age 75)

Bio: Ronald K.L. Collins is the Harold S. Shefelman Scholar at the University of Washington School of Law and was a scholar at the Washington, D.C., office of the First Amendment Center from 2002 to 2009.

Known for:

The trials of Lenny Bruce (2002)
The Death of Discourse (1996)
On Dissent: Its Meaning in America (2013)

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