[Am-info] Dishonesty in ads

[Paul Rickard]

========== On 2002.06.14 08:06 AM, John J. Urbaniak typed: ============

>There was no need to include the bit about his father's car, nor the
>clerk breaking the customer's bottle, nor the boss scowling.  They
>seemed to have been added as afterthoughts.
>
>I know that TV ad time is very precious and expensive.  Therefore, there
>had to be a conscious decision on the part of the ad-makers to include
>these incidents and examples of dishonest behavior.
>
>Anyone want to discuss this?

    General advertising trends. It's the ad firms, not the computer 
companies.



======== Paul Rickard, Editor of The Microsoft Boycott Campaign =======
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   company's present dominance."
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