need quotation

[jdl22]

Tomorrow I'm giving a talk for a research requirement in my grad program. I'm looking for OOT to give me a good quotation to say at the beginning or at least put on a slide.

My research is about the situation where a company or person only give out the positive information about their product and withhold negative information. Basically anything about covering up information and people being fooled by this would be good.

Following the rules, here's a pic of Paz Vega:

[Hamish McBagpipe]

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

-Orwell.

Double meaning, close?

[Oski]

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Tomorrow I'm giving a talk for a research requirement in my grad program. I'm looking for OOT to give me a good quotation to say at the beginning or at least put on a slide.

My research is about the situation where a company or person only give out the positive information about their product and withhold negative information. Basically anything about covering up information and people being fooled by this would be good.

Following the rules, here's a pic of Paz Vega:


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Using something to do with the Ol' Ford Pinto fiasco would work: As I am sure you know, the company did a cost analysis to include the price of people killed due to gas-tank explosions ... which they knew the Pinto was prone to when hit from behind.

Or, you can look for something from ENRON, etc.

[Hamish McBagpipe]

brainyquote.com

David Ogilvy seems to have about 50 advertising quotes.

[Blarg]

No good deed goes unpunished.

Perhaps relatable to the idea that doing anything but glossing over or not mentioning negatives about a product will only result in loss of sales; consumers may say they want the truth, but they won't favor it with an increase in sales, so the truth is suicide for a company economically -- no good deed goes unpunished.

[rohjoh]

That ain't no woman! It's a man, man!
--Austin Powers

[rory]

'“Let’s level. We’re America!”

“We can’t level, you crazy bastard, we’re in advertising!”'

-- The movie Crazy People

There are a ton of 'true advertisements' in that movie. Slogans for Volvo like, "They're boxy, but they're good." That would be a good movie for you to watch-- it is a look at what would happen if the advertisments were true. I'm pretty sure there were some great ones with aspirin brands being absolutely no different from each other. You'd dig it.

[Josh W]

Listening to a company discuss their own product is like a bikini...it's suggestive, but doesn't really reveal anything.