Biting the Hand that Misleads Us

Most magazines fall all over themselves to attract the glossiest ads. On the other hand, Adbusters exists to expose how those very same ads can manipulate us

Last summer, as I walked along a tidy residential street in Vancouver’s upscale Fairview Slopes, I wondered whether I had been given the wrong address. As a young journalist whose interests are outside mainstream journalism, I had decided to volunteer for a few months at Adbusters, the subversive quarterly magazine dedicated to undermining the kind […]