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Letter: Influence of TV

Published 25 May 2002

From Tom Marlow

Vincent Campbell seems certain that studies have refuted the suggested effects of mass media on human behaviour (4 May, p 60). So presumably he thinks that advertisers are wasting the millions that they spend on trying to influence us.

Saffron Walden, Essex

Issue no. 2344 published 25 May 2002

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