advertorial

Please, not an inspirational advertorial about women and aging and grit — the artificial saccharine Diana had to use to peddle her story to corporations who might sponsor her repeated attempts.

Oil companies spent millions on “advertorials” in major newspapers to discredit climate science and scientists, undermining public trust in their work.

Chevron’s compadres in the fossil fuel industry evidently took Big Tobacco’s correspondence course, challenging the scientific consensus about global warming with “advertorials” published on the op-ed pages of leading newspapers.

Its “advertorials,” placed in prominent newspapers, dismissed climate chance science as “unsettled.”

Exxon, for instance, spoke with a consistently forked tongue over the years, saying one thing in internal documents and something entirely different in advertorials and other PR material.