Photoshopped Ad Doesn’t Change the Fact That Soda Can in Fact Make People Fat (nymag)
**Misleading ad alert!**
By now you’ve maybe seen that poster from the Health Department that purports
to show a man who drank so much soda that he developed type 2 diabetes and was
subsequently forced to have his leg amputated. (Paula Deen had better watch
out!) Except the _Times_ tracked down the stock photo used in the ad and –
oops! — the model in the original shot actually has both legs. As you might
guess, the trade organization that reps the soda industry is appalled and has
called this kind of blatant Photoshoppery an example of a “‘What can we get
away with?’ approach.” And hey, if anyone knows about misleading advertising,
it’s the soda industry. After all, Coke is the company that once ran ads
busting the “myth” that soda makes people fat, even though it totally does.
[NYT]
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