Posted: Jun 02, 2011 12:32 am
keypad5 wrote:byofrcs wrote:APN Outdoor dropped the Atheist bus adverts.
Adshel is 49% owned by Clear Channel and 51% by APN Outdoor.
Ah, yes, APN Outdoor. I got them mixed up. But I didn't know about the ownership connection.
AndreD wrote:They're going back up. Huzzah!ABC News wrote:Ad company Adshel has reinstated a safe sex campaign for gay couples after it became clear a barrage of complaints about the ads were orchestrated by the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL).
The bus shelter poster campaign spruiking the message "rip and roll", features a gay couple hugging while holding a condom packet.
The offending ads were taken down from around Brisbane yesterday after Adshel, Brisbane City Council and the Advertising Standards Bureau received 30 complaints about the ads.
But the ads' removal also caused an uproar on social media sites, with many furious the posters were brought down.
In a statement issued this afternoon, Adshel said many of the complaints were part of an ACL campaign, and that it has reinstated the ads.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011 ... ion=justin
From that story:
Earlier today the ACL said the issue with the ads was about condoms, not homosexuality.
"I've been labelled homophobic. This has absolutely nothing to do with gay couples," spokeswoman Wendy Francis said.
"This has nothing to do with anything other than another condom ad in a bus shelter, where the children are catching buses to school and billboards where their parents are stopping at lights.
"I will continue to fight sexual imagery in our outdoor advertising until we can get it removed."
Even her lies are odious.