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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Should all companies be permitted to deceive the public regarding their products and services?
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Yes - that's called advertising. And just like advertising, there are nuggets of truth there, just spun in a way to make them appear to mean something different than they really do.
Seriously, this is an old concept. It's called "yellow journalism". There's no contract between the press and the public, so there's nothing that can be done other than walking away. Rupert Murdoch is the modern day Hearst, only without the fantastic movie about his mistress's nether regions.