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Samsung Galaxy Ad Misleads With Fake Interviews
unassimilatible writes "A Samsung ad campaign for the latest Galaxy Tab is misleading, to say the least. Actors pretending to be real people in fake interviews in a fake magazine misquoting a bad first-gen Galaxy tab review, are exposed — by the actual review writer. Netizens 'are having fun pointing out other curious things about the interviews, such as the fact that "leading New York real-estate CEO Joseph Kolinski" raves about the 8.9-inch Galaxy Tab even though the only 8.9-inch Tabs that Samsung itself had on hand at CTIA were non-working models.' Kolinski is actually an actor, not a CEO, Jim."
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/26/0129207/Samsungs-Happy-Galaxy-Tab-Users-Are-Actors
The odds of the Galaxy interviews being genuine... *sunglasses* ...are astronomical.
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
We call that a dupe.
Really /.? I know that dupes happen, but this is ridiculous!
samzenpus == worst "editor" of all time. Even Katz looks decent in comparison..
Advertizing is a lie, film at 11. Move along....
Apple sucks, so we have to copy everything they do.
So what you're saying is that if Samsung is going to copy Apple's astroturfing campaigns, they need to do a better job of it?
Like it or not, Apple is the most wanted brand lof tablets and phones. You can add flash, hdmi, double rainbows to your tablet but if Steve Jobs didn't produce it then it is regarded as pig shit by the masses.
Samsungs status = Told.
...for movies and stories, why not for ads?
This Slashdot story is now out of date! I have NEW INFORMATION!
I just found out that the people in those GALAXY TAB ads... are ACTORS! That's right! You heard it here first!
#DeleteChrome
That "average people" used in a television advertisement turned out to be PAID PROFESSIONAL ACTORS deployed for direct commercial advantage.
Where did this country go wrong?
Why exactly is /. bashing the Samsung Galaxy? And, Paranormal Activity was real.
Quick, someone delete the submitted topic. We already have had this conversation before.
Life is not for the lazy.
If you are surprised that ads are misleading and if you find "actors pretending to be real people" out of the ordinary then you should really go outside for a little bit.
Go on, the fresh air will be good for you, and will give you a chance to get rid of that "Mom's basement" smell.
"To prevent this day from getting any worse, I'll just read ERROR as GOOD THING" 1GJU8xLuDKDxEs4KLf8fAGyptoDsqvEsBT
Not exactly a dupe. The story here isn't that they are actors, it's that Samsung's marketing copied a writer's review -- one that is NOT a good review of their product, and used it in a fake magazine. Read the source.
If Joseph Kolinski (or alternatively Korinski) was the CEO of a leading New York real-estate and he had a real 8.9-inch Galaxy Tab. He would definitely be raving about Galaxy Tab...Duh!
So wait... I'm confused, who do we hate again? The Galaxy Tab runs Android, and Android is open source, so they are good, right? But Android is created and managed by Google, who is hoarding our personal data and undoubtedly invading our privacy rights, so they are bad, right? But the Galaxy Tab's main competitor is Apple's iPad, and the iPad's OS is a walled garden that prevents me from doing what I want with a device I purchased outright, so competition against that is good right? But Apple's walled garden keeps bad things out and good things in, so paying a premium for it is totally worth it and justified, so Android is bad, right?
I'm so confused.
Advertisements are lies. Why is this news again?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hodgman
Remember kids, if you're not paying for the service, YOU ARE THE PRODUCT THAT IS BEING SOLD.
The television lies
I was suddenly reminded of Galaxy Quest. Coincidence?
Happy smily kids eating at Mickey D are, in truth, a bunch of bratty whiners.
Continental doesn't really Love to Fly, they much prefer counting their money while laughing at stranded customers
Dell never really cared about customer satisfaction, but, at best, about being a bit less unsatisfactory than the competition, and cheaper.
and
No, we can't. Not really.
The Cloud - because you don't care if your apps and data are up in the air.
I watched the premier of "southern fried stings" and the entire show had the feeling of Reno 911.
This is on a network called TruTV and it was chalk full of actors doing re-enactments but the show never disclosed it.
So... this isn't new, but it is also not something we should accept either.
What world are you living in?
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
BREAKING NEWS: Justin Long isn't really a Mac. Also, Jon Hodgeman isn't really a PC.
This completely overturns my blind faith in the veracity of advertisements. If this one commercial contains fictional people, why, they all could! And what about the so-called "facts" they tell me? Maybe my beer really isn't less filling!? Maybe it doesn't really taste great!? What will I do?!?!
How can you tell that a marketing guy is lying? His lips are moving.
How can you tell that a marketing guy is omitting important information? His lips aren't moving.
Do people still honestly believe that commercials/advertisements/testimonials portraying consumers offering their opinions on the product are genuine?
This is business as usual. I would wager a guess at 95% of all commercials don't use genuine consumers. The remaining 5% (Vonage for example) have that little notice at the bottom that says something to the effect of "We offered them products and services for their endorsement in this commercial."
Umm, did you really expect anything else? First, how could anyone be happy with a Samsung, and second, when was the last time a Korean was honest?
I think I've got the code now. Most amusing.
Galaxy Quest? Is that another Samsung device?
I hope this reporter(?) hasn't seen any commercials with doctors in them. They are actors too. I would hazard to say that everyone on TV are actors. Yes I am including the news and reality TV.
No just Samsung lies, buy apple they are always honest and straight forward.
It impedes upon my ability to believe everything that I hear without doing any actual research about it myself! Ban it immediately!
Filthy, filthy copyrapists!
This is so interesting! cutting blade
Given that everything we see in advertising is a fabrication designed to mislead, I wonder who decided to highlight this particular set of lies?
Who has the most to lose? Who has the most to gain?
Yup. Nooooooow you're getting it!
All this time, I was believing everything I saw in commercials. Am I now to believe that:
1) The Ford F150 that I got when I traded in my Toyota Corolla will NOT get better mileage, and my voice will NOT get deeper when I talk about it. ....
2) Cialis does NOT come with two free bathtubs?
3)
I'm sorry, I just can't continue. My dreams have just been shattered against the jagged rocks of reality, and I need to go get my iPad to pray to Jobs for new direction in my life.
is also not really jolly, green, or a giant.
For once the annoying bot is +1 insightful.
It wouldn't be so obvious that there was an agenda if the acting in the ad wasn't sooo bad. It looks like one of those really bad retail/fast food training videos.
Really? Hands up if you're actually surprised that they use actors in advertisements. Jeez, people were you born yesterday? Newsflash! Everything in advertising is a lie designed to get you to buy a product you don't need. I thought parents taught this shit to kids when they start watching TV...
But a dupe of a really terribly unimportant story. Getting paid to advertise the Galaxy Tab, are we?
Apple sucks, so we have to copy everything they do.
So what you're saying is that if Samsung is going to copy Apple's astroturfing campaigns, they need to do a better job of it?
Well, they could start copying Apple by actually finding real people who like their products. Remember Ellen Feiss?
In DOCOMO commercials in Japan, the actual Galaxy Tab pretends to be Ken Watanabe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y8fjslHJuk
Actors will have another means of supplementing their income.
Look at reality TV shows. Where do you think they find people who are so eager to put themselves out there? Casting studios are a good bet. Of course, on the TV show, they'll pick a job other than "actor" when they say what they do.
So, perhaps Mr. Kolinski does run a small real estate firm on the side. Perhaps Joan Hess does write about travel. She's certainly presented a travel related TV show.
Rob Rozeboom dupe dee dup.
Dupe dee dupedee dupe dup. Until one day, da dupe dupe-e dupe dupe.
Dupe da ddupe got teetley dumb.
From the creators of 'dup' and 'tum ta tittaly tum ta too', Rob Rozeboom is: 'Da dupe dee dupe da teeley dupe-e dupe dumb'.
Rated PG-13.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
The difference being that Galaxy Quest was actually good...
Apple sucks, so we have to copy everything they do.
So what you're saying is that if Samsung is going to copy Apple's astroturfing campaigns, they need to do a better job of it?
Well, they could start copying Apple by actually finding real people who like their products. Remember Ellen Feiss?
It should be easy enough to find real people. Find a bunch of poncy photogenic "creative" types, give them a tablet for their troubles and let them gush profusely about how the device changed their lives. People will whore themselves out quite readily and say any shit you want them to say when there is a shiny toy for their troubles.
here in germany we had such commercials since the concentration camps.. how is this new?
Deception is a founding element rooted deep at the core.
What's funny is that the people who believe such things tend to listen to right wing talk radio. For some reason they seem to believe angry men with hours of air time to fill more than educated people they know personally.
... SHOCKER: Those persons have not been using stuff from the future for months. They just pretend to.
How could any sane person expect anything else? This whole affair is just stupid.
Someone wants to sell you something and they stretched the truth a little. /shocker
Its a commercial ... if you believed anything they said, well ...
There is a sucker born every minute.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Is this really so hard to understand?
Hello.
I am the real Michael Kristopeit. This well known troll above me has been using my name and slandering it for quite some time now by posting his misanthropic ravings. Please help me take my name back. My name is Michael Kristopeit. I am a single gay man living in Michigan and this asshole has taken my identity on slashdot.
You sure are bitter against Apple, aren't you? You're such a genius, but you can't even conceive of the idea that Apple users gush about Apple products because they actually like them?
It's not a lie!
It's not fraud!
It's a serving suggestion!
What? Where's the beef? Well, it's -- Look! Over there! A unicorn!
me. --a by-product of public education
I was interested in contacting the "liberal" response guest, an identified NY University business economics professor -- took me three months to finally track her down as she had no connection with NYU, nor ever had, but WAS a member of the NY chapter of the Screen Actors Guild (she didn't realize she was posing as an imposter but was misled into believing it was an audition).
A day of TV will provide Americans with nearly a dozen fake doctors telling them that their particular drugs are so wonderful that they should be added to the drinking water so everyone can enjoy their benefits. And -this- makes the headlines on Slashdot?? Seriously f--cked up reporting priorities.
And speaking of fake testimonials, even fake doctors are not a problem worth tackling until all the real doctors on peer-reviewed journal editorial boards are removed from the payroll of all the major pharmaceutical companies. Like that will ever happen.
The Great leader loves the Galaxy Tablet! There will soon be several applications that will download different photographs of our great leader using his Galaxy Tablet!
Hurry and get yours today!
Ross Youngblood
It's an "ad" -- of course they use paid actors! That is the norm.
Even when they say 'real person', that simply means they aren't a robot, but they can still be a paid actor...etc.
This has been the norm in advertising for decades.
You're pitiful, and now I know who the AC troll is that's been stalking me here for MONTHS now!
(It's YOU, with your own words quoted telling others to do so with you here http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1646272&cid=32150544 as my proof thereof!)
You also kept a JOURNAL on me? Hilarious, but... I am going to use that against you, & let others see the scumbag troll you really are:
http://slashdot.org/journal/250596/The-Alexander-Peter-Kowalski-threads--with-pics
That one, from your journal? HILARIOUS! Why? Because here are the facts, vs. your libellous fictions you stupid cunt:
---
1.) I own my own home, and rental properties, PAID IN FULL no less (so I'd advise you stop the libel, or else - & trust me: Ask Arstechnica if I have backed that up before, or see below) - and you tried to say in your journal I "live with my parents"? That's libel, asshole, in case you didn't know it!
This is easily verifiable via public information &/or tax records if you wish... as I have NOTHING to hide.
I.E.-> In fact - I am actually, believe-it-or-not, one of the single largest PRIVATE land-owners in my city (many lots/tracts of land, as yet still undeveloped though, that I intend to turn into more rental complexes in the future in fact).
In fact, I am ALMOST where I have always wanted to be, & worked 16++ yrs. in the Computer Sciences for: INDEPENDENT of having to work @ all! Almost there... can YOU same the same? I doubt it... especially when yoiu botch your contracts with customers... see below, lol!
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2.) You cited Arstechnica there too. They impersonated me on their forums and stalked me for nearly 5 yrs. online site to site, only to have their own personal websites removed for making literal death threats to me, posting my personal information, and libelling myself. In fact, ask Jeremy Reimer or Jay Little about that much (CrystalTech.com ousted Little, & Reimer got HUGE portions of his website forcibly removed after the police were informed of all of this (Det. Felton B.C. CA police in fact, where HE lives)).
Why?
Because I made them BOTH look like fools at Windows IT Pro forums (widely respected) in regards to Exchange Server and at NTCompatible.com on DRIVER_LESS_THAN_IRQL errors in drivers/hardware interfaces... they also stalked me to both those sites, to their dismay (see above).
Arstechnica: HOME OF THE UNDERACHIEVERS OF THE INTERNET, because I asked them ALL 1 simple question back in 2001 after they attacked & impersonated myself:
"What have you all ever done that was noted as good by peers in respected publication, trade shows, newspapers, books etc. in the field of the computer sciences"
Not a single 1 had a thing to put up - just like yourself when I asked that of you & I had a dozen (partial list only on my end of my FAVS only, there are many more & I did them while you probably where still in diapers I wager in the computer sciences)...
It really, lol, "set them off", & truths like that do, & I suspect THAT is why you have libelled myself (bad move)... just like I am doing to you, here now.
You brought it on yourself - I know your real name as well, this is where I have you BY THE BALLS (that is, IF you had them, & your posting as "Tom" here seems to say you WISH YOU DID, lol) if I wish, legally, in fact should I choose to exercise it, for libel.
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3.) You're also stalking me as an AC & your OWN words prove it here:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1646272&cid=32150544
There are LAWS against online stalking too, you sick freak! Or, don't you respect the law? Apparently not.
"Hell hath no fury like a woman"? More like Hell hath NO STUPIDI
You're pitiful, and now I know who the AC troll is that's been stalking me here for MONTHS now!
(It's YOU, with your own words quoted telling others to do so with you here http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1646272&cid=32150544 as my proof thereof!)
You also kept a JOURNAL on me? Hilarious, but... I am going to use that against you, & let others see the scumbag troll you really are:
http://slashdot.org/journal/250596/The-Alexander-Peter-Kowalski-threads--with-pics
That one, from your journal? HILARIOUS! Why? Because here are the facts, vs. your libellous fictions you stupid cunt:
---
1.) I own my own home, and rental properties, PAID IN FULL no less (so I'd advise you stop the libel, or else - & trust me: Ask Arstechnica if I have backed that up before, or see below) - and you tried to say in your journal I "live with my parents"? That's libel, asshole, in case you didn't know it!
This is easily verifiable via public information &/or tax records if you wish... as I have NOTHING to hide.
I.E.-> In fact - I am actually, believe-it-or-not, one of the single largest PRIVATE land-owners in my city (many lots/tracts of land, as yet still undeveloped though, that I intend to turn into more rental complexes in the future in fact).
In fact, I am ALMOST where I have always wanted to be, & worked 16++ yrs. in the Computer Sciences for: INDEPENDENT of having to work @ all! Almost there... can YOU same the same? I doubt it... especially when yoiu botch your contracts with customers... see below, lol!
---
2.) You cited Arstechnica there too. They impersonated me on their forums and stalked me for nearly 5 yrs. online site to site, only to have their own personal websites removed for making literal death threats to me, posting my personal information, IMPERSONATING ME, and libelling myself. In fact, ask Jeremy Reimer or Jay Little about that much (CrystalTech.com ousted Little, & Reimer got HUGE portions of his website forcibly removed after the police were informed of all of this (Det. Felton B.C. CA police in fact, where HE lives)).
Why?
Because I made them BOTH look like fools at Windows IT Pro forums (widely respected) in regards to Exchange Server and at NTCompatible.com on DRIVER_LESS_THAN_IRQL errors in drivers/hardware interfaces... they also stalked me to both those sites, to their dismay (see above).
Arstechnica: HOME OF THE UNDERACHIEVERS OF THE INTERNET, because I asked them ALL 1 simple question back in 2001 after they attacked & impersonated myself:
"What have you all ever done that was noted as good by peers in respected publication, trade shows, newspapers, books etc. in the field of the computer sciences"
Not a single 1 had a thing to put up - just like yourself when I asked that of you & I had a dozen (partial list only on my end of my FAVS only, there are many more & I did them while you probably where still in diapers I wager in the computer sciences)...
It really, lol, "set them off", & truths like that do, & I suspect THAT is why you have libelled myself (bad move)... just like I am doing to you, here now.
You brought it on yourself - I know your real name as well, this is where I have you BY THE BALLS (that is, IF you had them, & your posting as "Tom" here seems to say you WISH YOU DID, lol) if I wish, legally, in fact should I choose to exercise it, for libel.
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3.) You're also stalking me as an AC & your OWN words prove it here:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1646272&cid=32150544
There are LAWS against online stalking too, you sick freak! Or, don't you respect the law? Apparently not.
"Hell hath no fury like a woman"? More like He
You're pitiful, and now I know who the AC troll is that's been stalking me here for MONTHS now!
(It's YOU, with your own words quoted telling others to do so with you here http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1646272&cid=32150544 as my proof thereof!)
You also kept a JOURNAL on me? Hilarious, but... I am going to use that against you, & let others see the scumbag troll you really are:
http://slashdot.org/journal/250596/The-Alexander-Peter-Kowalski-threads--with-pics
That one, from your journal? HILARIOUS! Why? Because here are the facts, vs. your libellous fictions you stupid cunt:
---
1.) I own my own home, and rental properties, PAID IN FULL no less (so I'd advise you stop the libel, or else - & trust me: Ask Arstechnica if I have backed that up before, or see below) - and you tried to say in your journal I "live with my parents"? That's libel, asshole, in case you didn't know it!
This is easily verifiable via public information &/or tax records if you wish... as I have NOTHING to hide.
I.E.-> In fact - I am actually, believe-it-or-not, one of the single largest PRIVATE land-owners in my city (many lots/tracts of land, as yet still undeveloped though, that I intend to turn into more rental complexes in the future in fact).
In fact, I am ALMOST where I have always wanted to be, & worked 16++ yrs. in the Computer Sciences for: INDEPENDENT of having to work @ all! Almost there... can YOU same the same? I doubt it... especially when yoiu botch your contracts with customers... see below, lol!
---
2.) You cited Arstechnica there too. They impersonated me on their forums and stalked me for nearly 5 yrs. online site to site, only to have their own personal websites removed for making literal death threats to me, posting my personal information, IMPERSONATING ME, and libelling myself. In fact, ask Jeremy Reimer or Jay Little about that much (CrystalTech.com ousted Little, & Reimer got HUGE portions of his website forcibly removed after the police were informed of all of this (Det. Felton B.C. CA police in fact, where HE lives)).
Why?
Because I made them BOTH look like fools at Windows IT Pro forums (widely respected) in regards to Exchange Server and at NTCompatible.com on DRIVER_LESS_THAN_IRQL errors in drivers/hardware interfaces... they also stalked me to both those sites, to their dismay (see above).
Arstechnica: HOME OF THE UNDERACHIEVERS OF THE INTERNET, because I asked them ALL 1 simple question back in 2001 after they attacked & impersonated myself:
"What have you all ever done that was noted as good by peers in respected publication, trade shows, newspapers, books etc. in the field of the computer sciences"
Not a single 1 had a thing to put up - just like yourself when I asked that of you & I had a dozen (partial list only on my end of my FAVS only, there are many more & I did them while you probably where still in diapers I wager in the computer sciences)...
It really, lol, "set them off", & truths like that do, & I suspect THAT is why you have libelled myself (bad move)... just like I am doing to you, here now.
You brought it on yourself - I know your real name as well, this is where I have you BY THE BALLS (that is, IF you had them, & your posting as "Tom" here seems to say you WISH YOU DID, lol) if I wish, legally, in fact should I choose to exercise it, for libel.
---
3.) You're also stalking me as an AC & your OWN words prove it here:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1646272&cid=32150544
There are LAWS against online stalking too, you sick freak! Or, don't you respect the law? Apparently not.
"Hell hath no fury like a woman"? More like He
Your own words QUOTED here http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1646272&cid=32150544 said you do, and you even told others to do so...
(So, you're the "AC TROLL" that's been stalking me here, for MONTHS ON END no less, & your own words prove it for me, liar!)
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"First, I don't past anonymously, you stupid moron. The link you posted proves otherwise." - by tomhudson (43916) on Tuesday March 29, @08:30PM (#35661034) Homepage
LMAO, see above... after all/again - YOU SAID IT, & even told others to do it, & your own MOUTH trapped you in it!
(Ah, just "too, Too, TOO EASY - just '2EZ'" as per usual vs. a 1 dimensional NIX unaccomplished NOOB like YOU!)
You're NOT very intelligent, are you? You only did this to yourself, & the URL above proves that much... & yes, you DO troll & stalk me, as well as tell lies (which my posts above & before the past blow you to bits on) & startup shit with me as well, see here as only 1 single example thereof:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1992296&cid=35192078
So, Tom: DID YOU, or did you NOT, startup with me there, albeit for once, NOT as AC?
(Answer the question dummy... lol!)
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"Second, I doubt anyone is impressed with your use of the "c" word.." - by tomhudson (43916) on Tuesday March 29, @08:30PM (#35661034) Homepage
LMAO, yup... knew it: I've NEVER met a woman that could handle that word... & it did EXACTLY what I expected it to, which is "Rattle you in your Game/Your cage".
You have called me names, lied about myself, libelled me repeatedly & publicly (which I disproved easily, here -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2051634&cid=35658544 with your own words, & your invalid sources)
(Don't try "pot calling the kettle black" on me idiot... I'll burn you, everytime, & using your OWN misdoings & words!)
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"Third, same goes for making fun of my going temporarily blind in one eye." - by tomhudson (43916) on Tuesday March 29, @08:30PM (#35661034) Homepage
First, ordinarily? I'd take pity on that, & yes, that you're a woman... except you LIBELLED me, and the URL above disproves it all easily, & called me names (pot calling kettle black, & shows me "I cut thru to you emotionally" easily enough)... so please: Don't try the "PITY ME I AM A FREAK" shit.
You started it, I am finishing you with your own b.s. (& least of all, don't try the "I am a woman" shit - you don't act LIKE A LADY, you AC trolling, stalking, libelling cunt!)
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"you can't stand that a woman totally p0wns you without even doing anything for months on end." - by tomhudson (43916) on Tuesday March 29, @08:30PM (#35661034) Homepage
You don't deserve to be treated like a woman... but, since you post with a MAN's name (deceiver), and you start shit with me constantly & surreptitiously too (see top of this post & the URL in fact)? FUCK YOU! You want to act like a man/play with the boys, & you do so like a weasel?? You sowed the wind... here's YOUR whirlwind!
(I have been meaning to do this for QUITE a while, especially since you libelled me in your journal... I am just TOO damned busy usually to do so, & to be honest? I knew it was going to be easy, and it would make you look like the TRASH you are, so no hurry... you like?)
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"I must have really hit a nerve for you to think that any AC post about you was written by me." - by tomhudson (43916) on Tuesday March 29, @08:30PM (#35661034) Homepage
See URL at the top here... eat your lying, libelling, AC trolling & stalking word
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