Horrible ad runs in Tennessean

I LOVE that management pulled the "we are investigating" card, then it comes out that it already ran once.

Either they didn't find the ad "horrific" enough to take action when it first ran, or they don't read the print edition, either.

 

Publishers asking people to read a newspaper they obviously don't is hilarious.

 

Bingo.

At best, someone in management noticed the ad in Wednesday's paper and "hey, nobody complained. Let's run it again ... $$$"

 

So what is an appropriate response?

The ad rep and everyone above him/her in advertising fired? Everyone in a position of power in the newsroom who should have raised a red flag after it ran once fired?

I know if I was in that newsroom, taking furloughs and endless levels of shit in the community for this, my give-a-shit meter would be bottoming out until a lot of people paid for this with their jobs.

 

They should take the $$ they made from it and donate to a community organization. If they select Black Lives Matter, their building will get fire-bombed. So maybe they should be careful with the specs. But profiting off of this is just reprehensible. And, yeah, somebody should get whacked. Maybe a lot of somebodies.

 

I can't believe it ran twice and no one in Nashville noticed the first time. Damn.

 

I wonder how many of these ads were submitted in the Southeast and have been published (and no one noticed or cared) or now are on hold.

This is like one of those giant "Rare Golden Eagle Coins Found in Closet!" ads. Or for hearing aids, step-in bathtubs and commemorative plates. Same as the ones in magazines for those things. The creator whips up their special message and then blankets the publications trying to get it into circulation.

There's no way in hell Nashville was the only newspaper this group approached for publishing.

 

I'm pretty certain the Tennessean (or, in fairness, maybe just the Nashville Banner) used to run ads from noted child sex trafficker and cult leader Tony Alamo's "church" which featured pretty detailed descriptions of the crimes satan and the pope were committing across the globe. So, it's not a new thing.

 

Head rolled...

Tennessean fires manager, donates funds, plans training after anti-Muslim ad runs

 

One fucking person is all?

 

Can't let Cancel Culture win. Have to minimize the executions at the management level.
In a few weeks, of course, management will announce the executions of dozens of journalists -- those damned libruhls deserve it -- and decree that they'll do more with less.

 

Ad not fully read? You mean it was like another night in the newsroom?