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Samsung's Happy Galaxy Tab Users Are Actors

Posted by timothy on from the why-discriminate-against-actors? dept.

harrymcc writes "At the CTIA Wireless show in Orlando this week, Samsung unveiled new Galaxy Tab tablets and showed videos of interviews with 'true-life' users who raved about the Tab, including a travel writer, a filmmaker, and a real-estate CEO. One problem: the writer and the CEO are actually New York stage actors."

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  1. News flash! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Marketing = lies. Is anyone really surprised?

  2. News at 11... by hamster_nz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Guess what? The people in ads are, well, actors.

    And for the uber-naive, some online reviews are written by the product's manufactures!

    1. Re:News at 11... by AK+Marc · · Score: 5, Insightful

      That's fine, as long as you don't introduce the actor as "Dr. Joe Smith, M.D. here to endorse our penile enlargement program" when Joe is a janitor and wannabe actor. That's not "acting" or "marketing." It's just plain fraud.

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