I am grateful to a colleague for this photo of an ad stuck on the front cover of the Bangkok Post. The Visa advertisement covered up a front page news story and was much bigger than the stuck on ads
Bangkok Post and stuck-on ads
Mark
August 22nd, 2008 · 5 Comments
Category: newspaper masthead desecration
5 responses so far ↓
1 Andrew // Aug 22, 2008 at 5:49 PM
I’ve not seen this on any of the copies here in Thailand - and I get a copy every day. I wonder if it’s something the publisher is doing or whether it’s being done somewhere else?
2 Norman // Aug 22, 2008 at 10:33 PM
The same ad was also on a copy of The Nation bought at Suvarnabhumi on Tuesday 19/8/08. So possibly not the publisher.
3 Andrew // Aug 23, 2008 at 3:45 PM
Interesting … the shops at Suvarnabhumi are all operated by Asia Books so I wonder if they are responsible. As a publisher I would be furious if someone posted ads on my title without permission, although I’m not saying that is what has happened.
4 Andrew // Aug 25, 2008 at 1:00 PM
Mark - can you ask your colleague for any more information about this? I’m really keen to find out more, such as where the copy in question was purchased (air-side or land-side) or whether it was a comp. copy?
Thanks.
5 Andrew // Aug 29, 2008 at 1:21 PM
Have a look at my blog today and you’ll see The Bangkok Post is further desecrating editorial with advertising embedded within stories.
Has anyone seen anything like this before?
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