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Southwest Airlines Fined $200,000 for False Advertising About Fares
The U.S. Department of Transportation fined Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV ) $200,000 by on Tuesday for advertising low airfares on flights that in one case the airline didn't make enough low-fare seats available, and in other cases didn't make any cheap seats available at all. The DOT found the airline had advertised one-way nonstop fares "for $100 or less" for travel this past Feb.14 but hadn't made a reasonable number of those seats available. (www.fool.com) Mais...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
does this mean politicians are now also banned from advertising ? after all, they also promise things they never deliver....
They should be banned from advertising... We would probably get a lot better quality people in office. Now days, the media elects politicians.
So... We should have no idea who we're voting for? What?
No... That is not correct. We should still have debates and politicians traveling to different areas, but all the Paid Advertising in the Media needs to go... They are being slanted and out of proportion. What a politician says they should be held to legally and morally.
As if we do now?
The Courts have recognized a difference between commercial and political speech. Commercial speech, where a product or service is held out for sale, is well regulated and must be truthful. Exception is made for parody or hyperbole. An example was the promotion Pepsi ran allowing redemption of Pepsi points for merchandise. They showed a Harrier Jump Jet for seven million Pepsi points. When presented with the requisite points, Pepsi used parody as a defense for non-fulfillment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_v._Pepsico,_Inc.
Political speech has a long history of not being truthful. Everyone over the age of five knows a politician is lying if their lips are moving. Political advertising is expected Lie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_v._Pepsico,_Inc.
Political speech has a long history of not being truthful. Everyone over the age of five knows a politician is lying if their lips are moving. Political advertising is expected Lie.