Advertorials have always been on the dark side of shady. But, thanks to some product called “Reservatrol,” we now have a new low: an advertorial made up to look like a (non-existent, thank God) TV news website:

Fake TV Station Ad Used to Sell "Health" Product

The links at the top (Weather, Entertainment, etc.) all go to an order page for their “miracle product.” It claims to be rich in antioxidants, blah blah blah. Does this stuff work? Who knows? The Better Business Bureau says beware of the company’s misleading sales practices.

The site is at news 3 news (dot) com (which I write intentionally so as not to give them the Google Juice power of an actual hyperlink. In the words of Jerry Seinfeld, they can Cramitol.

Where was this appalling piece of work linked from? NewsBlues says it found it on Drudge.

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