By presenting the intellectual with a more or less accurate image of the popular culture, advertising earns his enmity and calumny.
Quoting advertising scholar Martin Mayer
Those cognoscenti whose values were formed before TV and advertising became psychologically pandemic are still anxious to draw a sharp distinction.
(between mass media and "quality")
a young culture so willingly bombarded with messages equating what one consumes with who one is that brand loyalty is now an acceptable synecdoche of identity, of character
this is a great quote, incidentally
This, that we are agnate, also goes a long way toward explaining the violent and conflicting critical reactions New Voices are provoking.
on how C.Y. writers are related less by chronology and more by similar environment
Young Anomic White Novelists
on the Brat Pack
