Holiday Ad Has Hidden Hate Message

NBC 5 ^ | December 11, 2003

[yonif]

DALLAS -- A holiday shopping flier that's been distributed to thousands of households in north Texas is creating controversy because a message of hate is included within an advertisement.

An ad for "Party City" was supposed to highlight a sale on Hanukkah items, but it also contained a hateful anti-Semitic message.

The advertisement includes the sentence "CC Hates the Jews" in large, bold letters.

According to ADVO, the company that printed the advertisement, a graphic artist working on the ad had left his desk for a moment, and a co-worker with the initials C.C. changed the text on the ad.

The graphic artist didn't notice the change and the ad went to print.

However, despite the explanation, the Anti-Defamation League wants more questions answered.

"How did it get out of the graphic shop in Pittsburgh? How did it get by ADVO? How did it get by the printer and all of that?" Mark Briskman said.

ADVO representatives in Dallas said they are mortified by the oversight and that they are trying to figure out why the error was never caught.

[BulletBobCo]

desination. Nobody proofs these things.

:)

[I got the rope]

[ecurbh]

had it delivered to desination. Nobody proofs these things.

Always proofread to make sure you don't any words out! ;~D

[cyborg]

http://www.freerepublic.com/~zvigurionak/ Dec 12,2003 in case you wanted to know

[Ciexyz]

Needless to say, there were some profuse apologies published in the next edition....

LOL! Live and learn.

[yonif]

lol

[JennysCool]

HAHAHA! Thanks for my best laugh of the day!

[scott7278]

What I don't understand is, why would C.C. label himself as an anti-semite? If I were a graphic designer and found something like that on the computer, do you think I'm going to laugh at it?

Usually stuff like this is done anonymously, but did C.C. actually think anybody would laugh with him?

[CindyDawg]

Well that was fast :')

[GeronL]

haha

I've always wanted to run a weekly paper....

[scott7278]

Did I say something wrong?

[CindyDawg]

CC might not have done it. Someone else could have used his/her initials. You wouldn't think someone would put their own in knowing they were going to be fired. CC also might stand for something else besides someones name.

[scott7278]

I was just going by the article:

"According to ADVO, the company that printed the advertisement, a graphic artist working on the ad had left his desk for a moment, and a co-worker with the initials C.C. changed the text on the ad."

[CindyDawg]

????????

[Slings and Arrows]

Ah, the joys of small-town newspapers...

I was a columnist for a small-town newspaper for a couple of years, and I can't begin to count the number of times the "editor" inserted spelling and grammar mistakes into my column. My favorite experience, though, was opening a copy of the paper and seeing this headline:

AFTER FATAL BEATING, SUSPECT COMMITS SUICIDE

Yep, after a fatal beating some guys just lose the will to live...

[AM2000]

it's like we're redefining 'hidden'

[CARepubGal]

The editor must have had a very long many martini lunch!

[scott7278]

I agree with you, it seems more likely that someone else would have done it, rather than C.C. However, ADVO put out the explanation that it was a coworker with the initials C.C.

I would hope that they would have already investigated before jumping to that conclusion, otherwise they're unfairly accusing C.C. of this dreadful act.

[GeronL]

AFTER FATAL BEATING, SUSPECT COMMITS SUICIDE

Darn, that might be real hard on the elderly with bad tickers.