The best concert I ever saw was one I wouldn't have known about if I hadn't caught a TV commercial for it the week before.

A moderately intelligent adult can understand that ads are biased and can separate the fact from the opinion. I want to know if there's a new pizza place that opened near me, that's a fact. I can resist taking their claim that it's the best pizza ever at face value. I don't need to fear it.

Advertising contains information. We can own the responsibility for deciding which information is valuable and which isn't.