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New pro-bono “support the troops” ads by DeVito/Verdi are getting a pasting from some ad executives who see them as partisan propaganda. “I feel the war propaganda machine,” Paul Venables of Venables, Bell & Partners tells the San Francisco Chronicle. “They may feel like they have hit it. I can see the puppet strings.” The campaign, created for the U.S. Department of Defense and the Ad Council, uses the slogan “America supports you,” and sends readers to a DoD Web site, AmericaSupportsYou.mil,
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