Comment by 1cvmask | Hacker News Reader

Comment by 1cvmask | Hacker News Reader

Everyone does corporate videos and pictures under "ideal" conditions. I even watched a documentary on how McDonalds takes the perfect hamburger pictures and how they doctor it. I assume most people by now assume everything corporate is doctored. And then even sometimes corporate news, media and reviews are even doctored thanks to relationships, payoffs and pay to play schemes.

Corporate news or corporate PR:

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/09/30/why-is-cnn-doin...

Example of a fluff piece by stenographer CNN:

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/10/world/expo-2020-dubai-par...

There’s a difference between marketing material and fraudulent claims made to investors.

You won’t get far claiming that your perpetual motion machine was just “filmed under ideal conditions” aka, hiding the magnet or air blower providing the energy to fight dissipation.

> I even watched a documentary on how McDonalds takes the perfect hamburger pictures and how they doctor it.

What’s interesting is that McDonalds mandates that they use the exact restaurant ingredients for the photo shoot without substitutions. But the way they prepare it is of course quite different and done with way more care.

Here is a video from McDonalds Canada about the process [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSd0keSj2W8

False advertising is a huge issue and using the exact ingredients helps mitigate lawsuits from those claims.

"Red bull gives you wings" is not literal, but the statement implies Red Bull should be more potent than other traditional sources of caffeine (like coffee). That it wasn't the case led to a lawsuit [1], which Red Bull ultimately settled.

  [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-29550003

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