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Deceptions in advertising

On May 7th, 2008 Gerald Stroup said:

Every commerical or ad has deceptions to sell that product. Advertisers are very clever to use these deceptions to exaggreate the good factors of the product. They down-play, distort, modify,cover-up,photoshop, and confuse the negative factors of the product.

examples: very small print
photoshop to beautify product
eliminate important parts
confuse
refuse to disclose ingredients

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