EDITORIAL BAD TASTE AWARD BOMBLIKE HOAXES A POOR CHOICE IN POST-9-11 WORLD.TWO media companies are likely to be fined big bucks for exercising extremely poor taste. Furious Boston officials are seeking legal action legal action n. any lawsuit, petition or prosecution. against Time Warner, the parent company of Turner Broadcasting System, which is responsible for placing 38 small, battery-powered light screens in public spaces and bringing the city to its knees Wednesday. How much the scare cost is still to be determined, as it will take some time to tally the price of closing bridges and shutting down roads and the subway for a day. The Los Angeles Times and Paramount Pictures also face legal action after a dud DUD - Detailed Urban Design (Guidelines) DUD - Drag Utan Drog (No-drugs cultural organization, Sweden) DUD - Dunedin, New Zealand - Momona (Airport Code) of a marketing gimmick in May for ``Mission: Impossible III'' caused several members of the public to think bombs had been placed inside newspaper boxes. What were they thinking? In the post-Sept. 11 era of hypersensitivity antibody-mediated hypersensitivity 1. type II h.; see Gell and Coombs classification, under classification. 2. occasionally, any form of hypersensitivity in which antibodies, rather than T lymphocytes, are the primary mediators, i.e., types I–III. cell-mediated hypersensitivity type IV h. to the very real threat of terrorist attacks, that kind of marketing is beyond just poor taste. It is criminal, and Wednesday's ploy in Boston was all the worse in a city deeply scarred as the origination spot for two planes that flew into the World Trade towers that horrible day. The companies responsible should have to pay the full costs that the public agencies spent to respond to their foolish stunts. |
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