Keep Your Pants On: Ford Denies Involvement In Link-Love Of Celebrity Genitalia
I think we've just about found the world's most tenuous attempt to tie a major auto company to celeb snatch shots — not like there was a huge list of also-rans. Well, except for this. But we digress. AdAge, the paragon — nay, penultimate — purveyors of pristine reporting — ran a headline this morning that tells us nothing but promises us everything:
Ford Denies Connection to Web-Concert Porno Promo
Let's see if we can walk everyone through the dubious internal link scenario AdAge has tossed out this morning in an attempt to drum up some readership — and maybe a link or two from the "real" business press. The controversy begins with ...
...ads being run by Control Room, the online live streaming music concert promoter/distribution company in order to promote a concert by the artist Pink. The ads will be placed next to content on websites with a penchant for crotch and snatch shots — places like PerezHilton, Pink Is The New Blog and TMZ. The banners, which play off the title of Pink's new single "U and UR hand" will use headers like "Don't you and your hand have better places to be" and "See the real Pink." Sure, classy it ain't — but whatevs, this is concert promotion we're talking about here, right? I mean, it's not always the most wholesome form of marketing on earth.
But anyway, what's this have to do with Ford? Here's the part where things get really murky and AdAge has decided to forcibly connect some dots here, so let's slowly walk everyone, including ourselves, through this. Ford's the sponsor of the MSN Music concert starring Pink, but although, as AdAge admits, are "not involved in the celebrity campaign." The MSN Music concert's being promoted by the company Control Room. Control Room has decided to run an ad campaign opposite of traffic-generating crotch shots. Crotch shots are porn. So Ford, by way of MSN and via Control Room loves the Pr0n. Am I the only one here who thinks this is a bit silly? Does anyone else think this seriously smacks of an attempt to build a story where nothing's really there? I mean, why isn't AdAge trying to pin this on Microsoft, the company hosting the concert? Or you know, what about Control Room — the company who's running this ad campaign? Wait — no, let's go after the wholesome-imaged 'merican company with Toby Keith as a spokesman but who has nothing to do with any of this whatsoever. Good call, AdAge — way to trump journalistic integrity with your own attempt at tossing to the business readers the journalistic equivalent of a snatch shot.
Ford Denies Connection to Web-Concert Porno Promo [AdAge]
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