[Ads-l] New to me: "astroturfing"

[Nancy Friedman]

It was one of my words of the week in August 2006. http://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2006/08/word_of_the_wee_5.html

An anti-astroturfing campaign and website date back to May 2004. http://www.thenewpr.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?pagename=Main.About




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-----Original Message-----
From: Wilson Gray [mailto:hwgray at GMAIL.COM] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2015 6:53 PM
Subject: New to me: "astroturfing"

But the UD has it from 2008:

"the act of creating a small organization and making it appear to represent something popular for the purpose of promoting a particular entity, cause, etc. (a play on "grassroots" in the sense of a popular movement originating among the common people, ultimately from AstroTurf, a brand of artificial grass)"

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