"native advertising"

[Benjamin Barrett]

Which is the environment, right? Newspapers also have that sort of thing. BB

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> On 15 Sep 2014, at 17:20, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> That may be, but the examples I saw on "Last Week Tonight" were clearly
> intended yo look like news.
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> Yahoo! News does it every day.
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> JL
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> 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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>>> On 15 Sep 2014, at 16:44, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
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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
>>> cyber-universe.
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>>> Why "native"? Who cares?
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