Television
PBS Executive Vice President Jennifer Lawson’s explanation for why PBS is unwilling to broadcast our Oscar-winning documentary “Deadly Deception--General Electric, Nuclear Weapons, and Our Environment,” is a perfect illustration of PBS’ narrow vision of its mandate as a public network (“It’s Unfair to Say PBS Choices Are Timid,” Feb. 15).
March 8, 1993
Business
Oh, he was the man of Taco Bell. But for only one night, as it turns out.
March 15, 1996
Movies
Since its release last July, “The Panama Deception,” a film about the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama, has been warmly received by critics.
March 31, 1993
The contrasting characters of Rob Lowe aren’t the only starkly different things in DirecTV’s commercials, federal regulators said: So are deals for subscribers that have higher costs than advertised buried in the small print.
March 11, 2015
World & Nation
With Medicare open enrollment underway, health experts are warning about misleading marketing that might lead some to sign up for Medicare Advantage.
Nov. 6, 2022
Entertainment & Arts
An Arizona television marketing company agreed last week to pay $1.5 million to settle claims by the Federal Trade Commission that three of its half-hour TV commercials were deceptive.
April 24, 1990
Show Tracker
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April 6, 2010
Politics
The tobacco industry has long used media campaigns to blow smoke in Americans’ eyes, but its current onslaught of TV ads against Proposition 10 takes deception to heights that would make even the Marlboro Man cringe.
Oct. 28, 1998
Ideas put forward by officials of the Public Broadcasting Service for “reinventing public television” sound more like those of bureaucrats worried about protecting their cushy jobs than any notion of serving the public.
Jan. 10, 1994
Given that my profession--public relations--has a reputation for “deceiving” the public, it may be surprising that I am disgusted by TV “infomercials” (“Amazing Discovery: These Shows Are Ads” by Howard Rosenberg, March 12).
March 17, 1990