Preemptive symbolic counters can derail an industry propaganda campaign

Evidence

Every 70 seconds a clock reported the toll of people who died of smoking-related diseases since the beginning of the Philip Morris tour. Nicotina, a captivating symbolic image, preempted the Philip Morris tour by arriving the day before and receiving extensive media coverage of smoking’s toll on health and life. The countertour derailed Philip Morris’s anticipated trium-phant association of smoking with freedom. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1663

Categorization

• STORYSTEM: A scene of activists hijacking a grandeur parade with a counter-symbol and media timing could seed a comic-tragic fictional set piece on propaganda wars.
• XREF: Connects to the vault theme of ordinary people rationalizing harmful policy through manufactured consent—here the counter-move is narrative hijack.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1663