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Spain's LaPais magazine apologizes for ugly 9/11 ad
Little Green Footballs ^ | 9.17.04

Posted on 09/17/2004 12:30:13 PM PDT by mhking

On Wednesday we had the story of an ugly advertisement for Spain’s El Pais newspaper, using images of 9/11.

Today, Southern Watch has a translation of El Pais’s very sincere-sounding apology.

EL PAIS apologizes for the use of the images of the terrorist attack against the Twin Towers in New York, which happend on September 11, 2001, for a campaign to aquire subscribers to ELPAIS.es. This regrettable campaign, carried out through emails, supported by two photos of New York, one with the Twin Towers and another one without, under the heading “You can do a lot in one day, imagine what can happen in three months”. The promotional campaign started last Monday, September 13, and was sent to more than 50,000 recipients before it was cancelled, on Wednesday 15th.

EL PAIS, its publisher and the Grupo Prisa profoundly regret the use of a tragedy, which in this case cost the lives of more than 2,700 persons, for publicity purposes. We would like to apologize for it to the victims and their families, to the citizens of New York who experienced that agression from up close, and to those who saw among their email this ominous message, and to all the readers of the newspaper.

Any explanation about the chain of errors which led to the launch of this campaign is insufficient, which some of our readers rightly qualified as repugnant. We share the disgust they have expressed in numerous messages and letters to the management and we are sorry it happened.

The Prisa Group has opened an internal investigation to clarify how it was decided to launch this promotional campaign and to take appropriate measures. Effective inmediately, it has ordered the company used to send out the emails that it mails all recipients of the campaign to apologize.

EL PAIS would like to express once more, like it has done in its 28 years and almost 10,000 editions, its solid solidarity with the victims of terrorism. Like said in EL PAIS editorial on September 12, 2001, and we repeat it fully here again, those terrorist attacks touch all citizens of good will, without distinction of borders or continents, and constituted an attack “against those with whom we share the same democratic principles which in our country costed so dearly to attain”.

The barbarian terrorist attacks which happened later in the rest of the world, among other places like Madrid, did nothing but confirm the necessity to act firmly and democratically before terrorism, which must exclude any irresponsible use of these events.

Anyone at CBS taking notes?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911imagery; ads; apology; elpais; haveyouforgotten; spain
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1 posted on 09/17/2004 12:30:13 PM PDT by mhking
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To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

2 posted on 09/17/2004 12:30:34 PM PDT by mhking
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To: mhking

Maybe they can do something clever with Madrid commuters.


3 posted on 09/17/2004 12:31:32 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Post #47: Note to Big Brother... the Memory Hole is Officialy CLOSED!)
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To: mhking

I second that "just damn." How many people let this get by??


4 posted on 09/17/2004 12:32:12 PM PDT by Pyro7480 (Sub tuum praesidium confugimus, sancta Dei Genitrix.... sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper...)
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To: mhking

Imagine what the terrorists could do with a nuke in Madrid...


5 posted on 09/17/2004 12:33:10 PM PDT by 2banana (They want to die for Islam and we want to kill them)
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To: mhking

Man, that is just vile.


6 posted on 09/17/2004 12:33:10 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: mhking

Apologies in this case do no good. The basic thought patterns that came up with this concept in the first place can not be explained.


7 posted on 09/17/2004 12:33:13 PM PDT by cspackler (There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.)
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To: mhking

What astonishes me, is that there is some advertising executive somewhere in Spain, who thinks that it's perfectly acceptable to run an ad like this.


8 posted on 09/17/2004 12:33:44 PM PDT by Happygal (liberalism - a narrow tribal outlook largely founded on class prejudice)
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To: mhking

Har-dee-har-har.

9 posted on 09/17/2004 12:33:53 PM PDT by martin_fierro (_____oooo_( ° ¿ ° )_oooo_____)
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To: cspackler

We cross-posted the same thoughts. :-)


10 posted on 09/17/2004 12:35:00 PM PDT by Happygal (liberalism - a narrow tribal outlook largely founded on class prejudice)
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To: Pyro7480

Guess what their political affiliation is?


11 posted on 09/17/2004 12:35:02 PM PDT by Jaded ((Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. - Mark Twain))
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To: mhking
Always thought this one was poignant.:


12 posted on 09/17/2004 12:36:11 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: mhking

And the laffs just keep comin'.

13 posted on 09/17/2004 12:36:28 PM PDT by martin_fierro (_____oooo_( ° ¿ ° )_oooo_____)
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To: martin_fierro

I was thinking about that very thing too.


14 posted on 09/17/2004 12:37:18 PM PDT by najida (Sometimes I feel like a nut, sometimes I am.)
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To: mhking

Seems Spain has forgotten it's own history of dealing with the Moors.


15 posted on 09/17/2004 12:37:20 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: dead

Huh! Good one.


16 posted on 09/17/2004 12:37:48 PM PDT by martin_fierro (_____oooo_( ° ¿ ° )_oooo_____)
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To: dead

Good Lord, was that actually published somewhere? It's atrocious.


17 posted on 09/17/2004 12:37:51 PM PDT by Bernard Marx (I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.)
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To: cspackler

=== The basic thought patterns that came up with this concept in the first place can not be explained.


Did you miss both conventions this year or what?


18 posted on 09/17/2004 12:38:11 PM PDT by Askel5 († Cooperatio voluntaria ad suicidium est legi morali contraria. †)
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To: mhking

BOYCOTT...BOYCOTT...BOYCOTT....


19 posted on 09/17/2004 12:38:34 PM PDT by marmar (Faith is a beautiful thing.....)
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To: Happygal

Except that it is was probably an ad executive across the strait in Marrekesh who though it was a cool ad.


20 posted on 09/17/2004 12:40:29 PM PDT by rod1
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