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2016 Postmortem

CousinIT

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3. Big Insurance also followed the same model as Big Tobacco when fighting ACA

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sun Dec 18, 2016, 11:37 AM

Dec 2016

Read Wendell Potter's book "Deadly Spin" which explains the history of marketing propaganda in detail. Huge PR and marketing firms have made this (literally Goebbels style propaganda) into a science and an art form. It's insidious in all areas of life and now is utmost in politics.

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Trump's outrageous lies come straight from big businesses playbook [View all] DonViejo Dec 2016 OP

The heart of the problem. JudyM Dec 2016 #1

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Big Insurance also followed the same model as Big Tobacco when fighting ACA CousinIT Dec 2016 #3