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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
Isn't this the typical kind of PR BS that lobbying groups do? Sort of like all the commercials about how corn syrup is the same as sugar at the behest of the "corn growers of America" or some such nonsense?
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Not exactly: those guys typically run paid ads that are known to be advocacy and don't pretend to be independent.
They don't enlist allegedly independent media organizations to present their canned talking points as unbiased fact.
You do see astroturfing in political campaigns where the media wants to tilt the environment in favor of their own biases.