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Inappropriate headlines

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— daniel @ 21:41

Sometimes media web sites have unfortunate placement of adverts. A little more subtle, but today on The Age web site it was the unfortunate placement of a fluff piece story/headline.

Age web site story

One Response to “Inappropriate headlines”

Ben Says:
March 10th, 2007 at 19:47
The best one I saw was an ad for Sony Vaio laptops inserted in an article about the exploding Sony laptop batteries last year.

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