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Jef I. Richards

"Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech."

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"I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique."

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"I promised to have no partisan affiliation and no subsidy except advertising."

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"Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it."
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"Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'?"
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"There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertising is regulated for truth. I'll put the accuracy of the average ad in this country up against the average news story any time."
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"In advertising, sex sells. But only if you're selling sex."
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"The law requires a paper towel ad to be scrupulously honest, but allows political candidates to lie without reproach. What's wrong with this picture?"
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"I believe 'credibility' is one of the biggest issues yet to be addressed by Internet advertisers."
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"Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money."
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"Congress seems to believe that 'Children are our future' is a phrase coined by tobacco advertisers."
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"If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless."
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