Judge Smails
01-14-2009, 09:39 PM
Actually, it's "in the Super Bowl game program" - but I can't edit the thread title
http://media.cnbc.com/i/CNBC/Sections/News_And_Analysis/__Story_Inserts/graphics/__SPORTS/M/madison_ashley_concept.jpg
Link (http://www.cnbc.com/id/28654770)
Noel Biderman, CEO of AshleyMadison.com, told CNBC that his ad was eventually rejected and was specifically told that the company wouldn't be allowed to advertise in any NFL game program until the end of time.
NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said that no one in the league office actually ever saw the ad. "After realizing what the site was, the sales rep called back and told the company there was a mistake and that his company could not sell an ad to the site."
Biderman thinks his inability to advertise is hypocritical.
"I find the rejection to be ridiculous given that a huge percentage of the NFL's marketing content is for products like alcohol, which they sell in their stadiums, promote on their air and clearly have in the magazine," Biderman said. "That's a product that literally kills tens of thousands of people each year. So if the NFL is worried about legislating behavior and regulating what their audience should be exposed to then it should start with a ban on all alcohol advertising and products being sold, not AshleyMadison.com."
That is some world-class spin doctoring right there that would make Nathan Thurm proud.
http://www.grinningplanet.com/3001/spotlight/youtube/nathanturm-rfk-globalwarming.jpg
Nathan Thurm = my obscure reference of the day
http://media.cnbc.com/i/CNBC/Sections/News_And_Analysis/__Story_Inserts/graphics/__SPORTS/M/madison_ashley_concept.jpg
Link (http://www.cnbc.com/id/28654770)
Noel Biderman, CEO of AshleyMadison.com, told CNBC that his ad was eventually rejected and was specifically told that the company wouldn't be allowed to advertise in any NFL game program until the end of time.
NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said that no one in the league office actually ever saw the ad. "After realizing what the site was, the sales rep called back and told the company there was a mistake and that his company could not sell an ad to the site."
Biderman thinks his inability to advertise is hypocritical.
"I find the rejection to be ridiculous given that a huge percentage of the NFL's marketing content is for products like alcohol, which they sell in their stadiums, promote on their air and clearly have in the magazine," Biderman said. "That's a product that literally kills tens of thousands of people each year. So if the NFL is worried about legislating behavior and regulating what their audience should be exposed to then it should start with a ban on all alcohol advertising and products being sold, not AshleyMadison.com."
That is some world-class spin doctoring right there that would make Nathan Thurm proud.
http://www.grinningplanet.com/3001/spotlight/youtube/nathanturm-rfk-globalwarming.jpg
Nathan Thurm = my obscure reference of the day