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

[Laurence Horn]

Yup, pretty clever.  It was one of our word of the year candidates a few years back; I forget which category and whether it won.

LH

> On Apr 1, 2015, at 9:53 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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)"
> 
> -- 
> -Wilson
> -----
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
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