Photo: #An image from Lydon Johnson's 1964 "daisy" ad, which implied that Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater might lead the world to nuclear war.
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An image from Lydon Johnson's 1964 "daisy" ad, which implied that Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater might lead the world to nuclear war. (Image Courtesy of American Museum of the Moving Image)

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Searching for truth in ads

Broadcast: Midmorning, 03/07/2006, 9:06 a.m.

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Ads are meant to persuade, but do they also mislead? Midmorning's first hour guest says there's a way consumers of both political ads and product advertising can guard against being duped.

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  • Kathleen Hall Jamieson: Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.

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