There are a lot of baltantly false ads on TV, and have been for decades. Remember "this is your brain on drugs"? Or how about the "drugs fund terrorism" super

There are a lot of baltantly false ads on TV, and have been for decades. Remember "this is your brain on drugs"? Or how about the "drugs fund terrorism" super bowl ads? That was a blatantly false campaign designed primarily not to discourage drug use, but to make it difficult for mainstream organizations and their people from supporting drug policy reform. Isn't every Volkswagen ad which touted fuel economy in their diesel vehicles essentially a blatantly false ad on the issue of climate change and carbon use? Many pharmaceutical ads have some blatantly false messaging, whether overt or not, and all of them carry the same political message: that the current system of regulation and intellectual property around drugs is healthy for people. TV is overrun by blatantly false ads that, once you think about it, have an unambiguously political component.