This promotional advertisement—showing the top half of a woman with a ten-pence coin covering each of her breasts—released by Rupert Murdoch‘s Sun newspaper has been ruled as not offensive or pornographic by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) in Britain. Objections related to women being portrayed as sexual objects, the ads appearing on buses where children…
Daily Archives: 30 April 2008
Cursor on screen is edging out ink on paper
Philip Meyer says the last newspaper will be printed, packed, sold, (and hopefully) bought, read, crumpled and thrown in the first quarter of the year of the lord 2043. That’s 35 years from now, but The Capital Times of Madison, Wisconsin, has acted before that eventuality could take place. The six-days-a-week newspaper has ceased ink-and-paper…
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