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| | Confidence-Building: Corporate image |
 | | Such feel good ads are usually designed to develop favorable public opinion to be on their side for their corporate policies, such as less government regulations, less corporate taxes, offshore oil drilling, "multiple use" forest management, or specific weapons systems. |
 | | Several terms ("publicity," "public relations," "good will advertising," "corporate image building," and "institutional advertising") all relate to this kind of "conditioning propaganda" which seeks to mold public opinions, assumptions, attitudes, beliefs, myths, and world views, on a long-term basis as the necessary climate or atmosphere for a future response. |
 | | Corporate advocacy ads often use ad hominem attacks against government regulators (as "bureaucrats" and "red-tape") and against volunteer reformers (as "sourpusses," "spoilsports," or "national nannies"). |
| webserve.govst.edu /users/ghrank/Advertising/Pitch/2-trust_me/corporate_image.htm (942 words) |
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