by Megan Power. I didn’t cheer the demise of the embattled Advertising Standards Authority this month.
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Ad ‘an attack on humour’
Romans Pizza has pulled its Boerizza TV ad featuring a blonde woman playing dumb and common. A viewer complained to the Advertising Standards Authority stating that the ad constituted “an attack on Afrikaans white women who are marginalized. It portrays this group of society as being backward and sex crazed.”
A place in the sun on one of those ‘Best and Kindest and We don’t Suck at All’ lists
I just published a story on BizCommunity.com relating how Samsung was caught out green washing its environmental credentials. The final, slightly more colourful, unedited paragraph of the story is republished here:
The ‘mega R25,000,000 MILLION’ auction from Aucor
I have never met Rick Raubenheimer but I can yell you the guys has a sense of humour. He recently lodged a complaint with the Advertising Standards Authority of SA (ASA) against a print advertisement for auction house Aucor.