Is Advertisements Good or Bad

The mass media is flooded with advertisements of every kind. One has only to flip through the pages of magazines or newspapers or sit through a television programme to see the wide coverage advertisements receive in terms of space and time. Companies fork out large amounts of money just to advertise their products or services. Surely then, advertisements must offer a host of benefits or why do producers spend so much money on them and why do people put up with them? Revolving around this matter, there are two articles being review to identify the advantages which people nowadays had been said as the advantages of advertisements. The first article being review is titled “The Advantages and Disadvantages of Advertising” written by Milan Chaterjee while the second article being review is titled “Is Advertising in Trouble?” written by ET Bureau from The Economic Times article. Nonetheless, in this article, they would be an argument between the first article and the second article. The first article tends to be weaker due to some fallacies identified in the article.
What then, are the benefits of advertisements? In the first place, advertisements has been said to provide us with information about job vacancies and also about properties or cars for sale. Through advertisements, employers can recruit workers and people who wish to put up their properties for sale can find buyers or vice versa. Advertisements offer a wide variety of options to both potential buyers and sellers. In the first article written by Milan Chaterjee, it had stated that level of advertising are just too much these days because people are on average less happy than they were 30 years ago despite being overwhelmed by too much advertising nowadays (refer argument map 1). These statement falls under the fallacy of hasty generalization as it has no evidence to support its claim that people are happy 30 years ago because in the first article ostensibly says that today people are too overwhelmed because