Jerry Mander, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television

http://www.worldcat.org/title/four-arguments-for-the-elimina...

(Mander was himself an ad executive.)

Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death and Technopoly

http://www.worldcat.org/title/amusing-ourselves-to-death-pub...

http://www.worldcat.org/title/technopoly-the-surrender-of-cu...

Adam Curtis, The Century of the Self

http://www.worldcat.org/title/century-of-the-self/oclc/86087...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s

While we're at it, A Thousand Clowns

http://www.worldcat.org/title/thousand-clowns/oclc/748574510...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AGeq3aMQpbU