Insensitive. Appalling. Disgraceful. Greedy. Shocking. These are just some of the words one could use to describe the ad for Woolworths stuck over a page one story about Daniel Morcombe in today’s Courier Mail newspaper.
What does it say about News Limited that it would rather take the money of a giant supermarket chain than give this heartbreaking story respectful coverage. Oh, there will be excuses and explanations. The fact of the ad stuck over the story is there for all to see.
News Limited ought to be ashamed of selling out to Woolworths and covering up this story. The company should apologise.
Bloody disgraceful. If this was done in my shop it would be taken off every paper.
This ad was on some of our Herald Sun’s also.
Tracey, i did exactly that…..and i just hope everybody else did too.
Radio station 4BC in Brisbane aired their views on this matter. They declared that advertising had gone to far and were outraged with the sort of advertising. interestingly enough a caller rang in and said she had complained to the Courier Mail and they replied that she was only the second complaint they had received – this was at 1.30pm this afternoon. Not all papers received this disgraceful form of advertising. Did they decide to ‘pull the plug’ half way through???
Maybe the newsagents did what i did Russell and removed the stickers before people seen them. Maybe i should have left them on so people could have seen it and complained. I do hope 4bc gave them hell on this subject. If i was the Tea company i wouldnt be feeling real good at the moment, i would have included Woolworths in that last statement as well but i think we all know what they stand for.
I hope that newsagents right across Queensland complained about this. If I had a newsagency in Queensland I would have setup a petition so that News Limited heard direct from the readers.
As I said in the blog port – a disgrace.
Did not have on the Couriers that we received in Nth Qld but would have taken them off.
Didn’t see this in brissy yesterday. Perhaps the sticker was removed pre-sale by the agency?