Advertising: untruthfulness? (Boorstin)

August 28th, 2006  |  Published in Truth, Marketing and Advertising, Quotes, Culture

We think [advertising] has meant an increase of untruthfulness. In fact it has meant a reshaping of our very concept of truth.

–Daniel Boorstin, The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961), p. 205

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