"native advertising"

[Jonathan Lighter]

That may be, but the examples I saw on "Last Week Tonight" were clearly
intended yo look like news.

Yahoo! News does it every day.

JL

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 8:09 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>
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> The Wiki link says not objective but so as to match the environment. BB
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> > What could it be?
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> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_advertising
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> > In simpler terms, it's advertising disguised to look as much like
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> > news as possible. Evidently the wave of the future as news outlets starve
> > for revenue, competing for attention with everything else in the
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> > Why "native"? Who cares?
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