Doughnut Fiasco

[Richard Bell]

According to numerous reports, NBC affiliate WAGT in Augusta, Georgia recently ran a promo "news item" on a new lower calorie "wheat" doughnut.

Apparently, somebody googled for an image to use as a backdrop, and unfortunately used a parody image that contained crude language. It seems that nobody bothered to note that some joker had put a sexually explicit tag line in the photo.

I checked with snopes.com, because this seems so outrageous that it couldn't be true, but they hadn't any info on the purported incident.

I wonder if this is actually an engineered piece of guerilla marketing. It certainly is spreading the word on this product. I'm almost hesitant to post this, should I be part of the conspiracy.

Anyway, you can see it here, as of March 11. WAGT reportedly had it pulled off of youtube.com.

WARNING: The image contains a crude sexual phrase.

http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/ ... words.html

[Marie5656]

I have tried Krispy Kreme doughnuts. They are not THAT great.