Monday, October 13, 2008

Dissembling: it's truthiness lite.

AdAge columnist, blogger and critic, Bob Garfield, has long pointed out that the only kind of advertising that isn't legally required to prove the truth of its claims is political advertising. And that's the water we're all swimming in today.

Here's Garfield's latest complaint.

1 comment:

....J.Michael Robertson said...

Tis true, tis a pity. Pity tis, tis true. So much contempt for the ignorance of the American voter, but there the ignorance is and whoever gets to it first often wins/sometimes wins/never always loses. Take your pick.