A blog on issues affecting Australia's newsagents, media and small business generally. More ...

Why promote the newspaper story if you are going to cover it up?

age-may2011.JPGThe Age newspaper, on its front page yesterday, was promoting a story about privacy and the media.  They thought the story so worthy that they accepted money from Australia Post for an ad stuck over the top of the editorial promotion.  Just nuts.

0 likes
newspaper masthead desecration

Join the discussion

  1. Andy

    On the topic of media outlets selling out their brands, TV networks are whoring their brands as well. These days a lot of station ID’s are embedded with advertiser/sponsor-paid logos. Seems that the networks’ own brands are not worth preserving, either, if there is a dollar to be made from it.

    0 likes

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Reload Image