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Advertising Of Food And Drugs: Concealing A Truth, Hinting A Lie, Barry S. Donner
Advertising Of Food And Drugs: Concealing A Truth, Hinting A Lie, Barry S. Donner
Akron Law Review
THE FOCUS OF THIS COMMENT is on recent advertisements promoting foods and drugs. Listed below are some representative ads, either recently published in magazines, or broadcast on radio or television. The question is whether they represent practices which, under the Federal Trade Commission Act, are prohibited, or should be prohibited.
A Round "Peg" For A Round Hole: Advocating For The Town Of Oyster Bay's Public Access Channel Restrictions, Thomas Werner
A Round "Peg" For A Round Hole: Advocating For The Town Of Oyster Bay's Public Access Channel Restrictions, Thomas Werner
Federal Communications Law Journal
New technological devices which allow consumers to skip commercials are driving corporations to engage in alternative advertising. The development of more “organic” methods of integrating products into the content of television programs makes those advertisements much more difficult to detect. As it becomes more difficult to divorce the product being sold from the content of the program, it also becomes more difficult to determine whether or not an advertisement actually exists. Without such blatant references, these programs would be likely candidates to appear on public access channels. This poses a severe threat to the service that those channels were intended …