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Truth in Advertising

LOOK: Real Faces And Photoshop Don't Mix

The Huffington Post | Nina Bahadur | Posted 04.10.2013 | Women
Read More: Photoshopped Images, Photoshop, Metra-Jeanson Id, Truth in Advertising, Laurence Jeanson, Photoshopped Models, Bruno Metra, Metra-Jeanson, Women News

What would Photoshopped features look like on real faces? Even stranger than you may think, it turns out. Photographers Bruno Metra and Lauren...

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Subway's Inch-Short Footlong Causes Facebook Fury

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 01.18.2013 | Home
Read More: Food News, Fast Food, Australia, Subway, Matt Corby, Subway Footlong, Truth in Advertising, Fast Food Industry, Facebook, Footlong, Video, Subway Sandwich Chain, Restaurants, Connecticut, Subway Sandwich, Philly Cheesesteak, Home News

He got it made at Subway -- and it didn't measure up. Australian Subway customer Matt Corby took a tape measure to the sandwich chain's vaunted Foo...

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5-Hour Energy and 30-Second Deceit

Nathan Risinger | Posted 12.18.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Advertising, Bioethics, Energy Drinks, Ethics, Truth in Advertising, Healthy Living Health News, Health Claims, Pharmaceutical Industry, 5-Hour Energy, TV Advertising, Direct to Consumer Pharmaceutical Marketing, Direct to Consumer Advertising, Healthy Living News
Nathan Risinger

Advertisers frequently trade on the implicit trust we have in medical professionals to sell products for their clients. For example, an advertisement promoting the consumption of 5-Hour Energy has recently been running on television.

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Weekly Pulse: 911 Is a Joke (Because It's Broke)

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Truth in Advertising, Abortion, Destitute, Vegetarian, In Defense of Food, New York City, Budget, Cpc, Parke Wilde, 9/11, Medicaid, Omnivore's Dilemma, Noelle Williams, Choice, Usda, Telephone, Marion Nestle, Wisconsin, Tax, Michael Pollan, Blog, Food Politics, Ms Magazine, Food, Working in These Times, Walker, Communications, Bury, Grist, Crisis Pregnancy Center, Ems, Home News
The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger As the Great Blizzard of 2010 blanketed New York City, most residents were blissfully unaware that th...

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Proposed FCC Rules Will Put Glenn Beck on the Gold Standard

N. E. Marsden | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Truth in Advertising, Stealth Advertising, Fcc, Federal Communications Commission, Media News, Media Bias, Glen Beck Gold, Endorsements, Embedded Advertising, Media News
N. E. Marsden

Beck insists that his reporting is not biased. Does he tell viewers that coins may not be the best way to buy gold? That too much gold can sink a portfolio? That gold may be the next bubble?

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From Mad Men to McCain

Dr. Peggy Drexler | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: AMC's Mad Men, John McCain, Truth in Advertising, Ftc, Barack Obama, John McCain Attack Ads, Attack Ads, Politics News
Dr. Peggy Drexler

While consumer advertising has moved on, political advertising is caught in a curious time warp -- combining modern technology with the unfettered, unregulated ability to say down is up and the opponent hates puppies.

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