Oct 2, 2008
This “news” on NBC site is nothing but a cheap trick
Maybe I’m just old-fashioned, but I saw this on nbc.com:
…and I can’t help thinking that the ad on the right – made up to look like a news update, right down to the “updated 8 min. ago,” is horribly wrong. Is NBC so hard up for money that it’ll allow its site to carry deceptive ads dressed up as fake news?
(Edit to add: ten minutes later and I can’t get the ad to show up again, so maybe it just slipped through the cracks and someone at NBC killed it. That position seems to be filled with a lot of remnant advertising.)
Oct 06, 2008 @ 06:06:12
Yeah, that ad is terrible. Not cool.
Oct 06, 2008 @ 07:14:53
Haven't seen it since. Clearly they have a system in place to catch bad ads – even if it's after posting – and it works.
Oct 06, 2008 @ 08:14:53
Haven't seen it since. Clearly they have a system in place to catch bad ads – even if it's after posting – and it works.
Oct 06, 2008 @ 12:06:12
Yeah, that ad is terrible. Not cool.
Oct 06, 2008 @ 13:14:53
Haven't seen it since. Clearly they have a system in place to catch bad ads – even if it's after posting – and it works.