grodscorp@grods.comUnfortunate ad placement
 | Posted by The Editor on Tuesday 22 January 2008, 5:18 pm Categories: Corporate stupidity, Media Tags: advertising, paedophiles, RSVP, TheAge |
There’s a story running on The Age’s website about a teacher who repeatedly screwed an underage student.
A Melbourne secondary school teacher had weekly sex with a student in a school darkroom, a Victorian court has been told.
Paul Anthony Segar, 50, of Mt Waverley, appeared in the County Court in Melbourne today charged with two counts of an indecent act with a child under the age of 16, four counts of sexual penetration with a child under 16 and four counts of sexual penetration with a child aged 16 to 17 whilst under his care and supervision.
Alongside the ad is a purple animated advertisement that begins thus:
And continues thus:
Oh dear. Poor old Fairfax-owned RSVP.
GrodsThink Ep.31 (16/9/08)
Wednesday 23 January 2008, 12:17 am #Mikey
Oh dear. Is that one of those “intelligently linked” bits of software where they link keywords in the tags of graphics to specific products?
Wednesday 23 January 2008, 4:58 pm #Wah
Media Watch did this once Fairfax assured them it was coincidence, which often happens in the print publications too.
To have smart links from stories to ads on news sites filled with doom and gloom is always asking for trouble. After reading this yesterday I checked a variety of stories on The Age web site and found nothing to suggest links.
From my observations certain advertisers have ads at a particular time across stories. Yesterday afternoon it was BMW, in the evening BankWest.
Thursday 24 January 2008, 1:54 pm #The Editor
Yeah, I wasn’t suggesting it was deliberate, Wah. Just ironic and unfortunate.
Friday 25 January 2008, 11:44 am #krypto
yes but what the nation want’s to know is…IS SHE HOT??!!??