Comments on: Truth in Marketing http://www.polepositionmarketing.com/emp/truth-in-marketing/ Search Marketing Information to Render Your Competition Powerless! Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:05:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Seth Tachick http://www.polepositionmarketing.com/emp/truth-in-marketing/comment-page-1/#comment-10419 Seth Tachick Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:31:36 +0000 http://www.polepositionmarketing.com/emp/?p=993#comment-10419 There is truth in advertising, it's called the little "disclaimers" at the bottom of the screen that are placed whenever they show a product doing something fantastic. Or like with radio ads, the dude that's talking 100 MPH at the end of all those car commercials. These are precautions advertisers have to take, yet this doesn't mean ads can't be misleading. There is truth in advertising, it’s called the little “disclaimers” at the bottom of the screen that are placed whenever they show a product doing something fantastic. Or like with radio ads, the dude that’s talking 100 MPH at the end of all those car commercials. These are precautions advertisers have to take, yet this doesn’t mean ads can’t be misleading.

]]> By: Jason Green http://www.polepositionmarketing.com/emp/truth-in-marketing/comment-page-1/#comment-10412 Jason Green Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:08:19 +0000 http://www.polepositionmarketing.com/emp/?p=993#comment-10412 Often advertising is forced to push colorful, exaggerated caricatures of real life situations just to get the attention of the people. Perhaps this is evidence of American society's visual and emotional de-sensitization that is accepted by modern sociology. It would be interesting to study the use of falsehood and exaggeration in advertising within different cultures. Perhaps cultures that do not embrace lying as playfully as modern western society. Often advertising is forced to push colorful, exaggerated caricatures of real life situations just to get the attention of the people. Perhaps this is evidence of American society’s visual and emotional de-sensitization that is accepted by modern sociology.

It would be interesting to study the use of falsehood and exaggeration in advertising within different cultures. Perhaps cultures that do not embrace lying as playfully as modern western society.

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