Thursday, October 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.)

2 comments:

  1. Yeah, that ad is terrible. Not cool.

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  2. 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.

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