That’s one clever ad buy.
For those unaware, when you’re buying ads online, especially with professional media outlets, they’ll basically sell you anything you can dream up. In this case, the “clean coal is a joke” camp bought ad space on the “page not found” pages on WashingtonPost.com.
You can click over to see it for yourself, but the text on the “not found” page reads: “This page does not exist. Kind of like clean coal.”
The Minneapolis Star Tribune ran a great piece today written by Pamela Hill Nettleton, who is described as a magazine writer and former editor of Minnesota Monthly magazine, not to mention a doctoral student in communications at the University of Minnesota.
The article expresses Pamela’s disgust for product placement and the overall sad state (commercialized) entertainment. It’s a brilliant, funny piece that mirrors many complaints I’ve made, in speech and in writing, at various times. Well done, Pamela. Well done.
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