Doughnut Fiasco
Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 11:44 pm
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
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
