“We never thought anyone would be offended,” said Mr. Gupta, who developed and wrote both commercials himself.I've gotta confess... I find this sort of fuzzy-bunny nonsense as scary as any terrorist threat.
“The pandas are Chinese,” he said. “They don’t speak German.”
After last year’s Super Bowl, two spots were taken off the air. The Masterfoods USA unit of Mars stopped running a commercial for Snickers candy after some viewers complained the spot and related material on a Web site were homophobic.Is this how western civilisation ends... "not with a bang, but a politically correct whimper?"
The second spot, for General Motors, was withdrawn because some viewers complained it glorified suicide. After editing, that commercial returned to TV.
Good grief.
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