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The Age trumps itself

age_happyjohn.JPGMarketing has trumped editorial at The Age again today. The headline promoting exclusive excerpts from Peter Costello’s new book is partially covered a stuck on ad. Not happy John becomes happy John. I bet they are not happy. These ads litter streets and devalue newspapers.

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  1. Debbie

    I hope these stickers were not the reason that we received our ages’ at 6.00am for the third Saturday in a row. Not happy John? Not happy Debbie

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  2. David

    Well I must say that your store is lucky.
    We never had any impediment by way of advertising on any of our Age for Saturday.

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  3. Andy

    Looks like its not only newspapers that Fairfax are willing to pimp off to the highest bidder. Apparently their Sydney radio station 2UE is to become “2U-Wii” for *three weeks* as part of a marketing campaign for the Wii gaming machines.

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