Advertising's 5 Biggest Lies: Best of 2012

For today's "Best of 2012" selection we go back to June for this piece.

Among our fellow citizens, it is commonly believed that we ad hacks
get paid to lie. While I am not prepared to stipulate, I do concede that
sometimes we don't quite tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing
but the truth.

So when you set out to write a piece entitled Advertising's 5 Biggest Lies, you are begging for