« Birthdays for Friday, Oct. 9
Birthday for Saturday, Oct. 10 »

Yet another obtrusive ad

Our Thursday post produced this interesting e-mail response from someone we’ll keep anonymous:

Didn’t know if you’d seen this:

0910obtrusivesportsfrontad

…Some scary lines being crossed, I’m afraid.

Egads.

Find Thursday’s post here.

This entry was posted on Friday, October 9th, 2009 at 12:11 am and is filed under Visual ethics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

3 Responses to “Yet another obtrusive ad”

  1. Casey Rogers Says:
    October 9th, 2009 at 11:16 am

    I’ve seen ads like that on Web sites, will readers notice a difference?

    That’s a nicely cropped photo on that Foster package, btw.

  2. Tom Lynch Says:
    October 9th, 2009 at 12:02 pm

    Scary lines indeed.

    What happens when one of these front pages carries a story that the advertiser is likely to find offensive? Will there be pressure to hold the story a day? Move it inside? Or if it runs, does the newsroom face the music the next day?

    I know those kinds of conflicts exist already, but with these unique and premium placements (and prices), the stakes are much higher.

    I’d be interested to know what kinds of policies are in place to address such issues at papers where these kinds of ads are running.

  3. tbone Says:
    October 12th, 2009 at 1:09 pm

    Take the money and run

 

Leave a Reply