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product to the producer image of process. The corporate image
of process includes the consumer in the producer role as well.
This powerful new trend in ads toward the iconic image
has greatly weakened the position of the magazine industry in
general and the picture magazines in particular. Magazine
features have long employed the pictorial treatment of themes
and news. Side by side with these magazine features that
present shots and fragmentary points of view, there are the
new massive iconic ads with their compressed images that
include producer and consumer, seller and society in a single
image. The ads make the features seem pale, weak, and
anemic. The features belong to the old pictorial world that
preceded TV mosaic imagery.
It is the powerful mosaic and iconic thrust in our