Posted on 09/01/2009 1:38:07 PM PDT by BornToBeAmerican
WWF condemns 9/11 print ad by DDB Brazil
[NOTE: The WWF says it never approved this ad and is condemning it. See the updates below.] Just in time for the anniversary of 9/11 comes this tasteless, nightmarish print ad for the World Wildlife Fund, showing dozens of planes headed for lower Manhattan. See a larger version here. The copy reads: "The tsunami killed 100 times more people than 9/11. The planet is brutally powerful. Respect it. Preserve it." Unfortunately, respect is the main thing lacking here. Exploiting one tragedy to try to prevent another is just stupid and self-defeating, and will always backfire. Via Advertolog, which credits the ad to DDB Brazil. UPDATE: It appears this ad actually managed to win a merit award for public service at The One Show this year. UPDATE: We spoke to a rep at the U.S. HQ of the WWF in Washington. She said the group "strongly condemns the messaging and the imagery" of the ad, and she added: "We can promise you this ad does not reflect the thoughts and feelings of this organization." WWF further says the ad was "never authorized or approved by any WWF person on the planet" and that the group is investigating the "unauthorized and illegal use of our logo." The group's official statement on the matter can be seen here.
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The World Wrestling Federation kills people?? /s
You know, I met the Iron Sheik at the airport about a year ago. That guys is totally burned out.
After he gave me his autograph, he begged me if I had $5 to spare!
I thought it was the World Wrestling Foundation when I saw the headline, duh.
here’s a quote from Prince Philip, founder of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), flagship of the modern “environmental” movement:
“Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival. We’re in for a major disaster if it isn’t curbed... We have no option. If it isn’t controlled voluntarily, it will be controlled involuntarily by an increase in disease, starvation and war.”
— HRH Prince Philip, interview “Vanishing Breeds Worry Prince Philip, But Not as Much as Overpopulation”, People Magazine, Dec. 21, 1981
Again, from Prince Philip:
“The object of the WWF is to ‘conserve’ the system as a whole; not to prevent the killing of individual animals. Those who are concerned about the conservation of nature accept... that most species produce a surplus that is capable of being culled without in any way threatening the survival of the species as a whole.”
— HRH Prince Philip, founder of WWF, in the Chancellor’s Lecture, Salford University, June 4, 1982.
Some ad agency (in Brazil, I guess) stepped in it hard. Now the WWF is in damage control mode.
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I will never understand these people.
So, I’m to believe that the Ad agency ran a promo campaign without running it by the client first?
LOL! Pull the other one WWF.
Elitists think they’re above the rest of us. The ill-gotten wealthy, Ivy school educated, heredity enabled Elites.
THe WWF condemned it and said they never authorized it.
Fine.
But the Ad Agency did produce it and won an award for it.
Kinda makes you wonder.
You will see more stuff like this as the Day of Service overides Patriots Day.
So...what are you doing in November 2010?
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