4 Responses

1. Doubleclick Says:
   April 13th, 2010 at 8:27 am

   Some great things here, but they weren’t all ads, were they? I remember the recent controversy when the “Tsunami = 100 9/11s” image (bottom left square) was leaked to the newspapers. WWF explained that this was a rejected proposal by an agency, and the charity never ran it as an advertisement.

2. Pac Says:
   April 13th, 2010 at 12:06 pm

   Very good insight, really never hard about that. I did however wondered about it before posting, I thought it most have been a controversial ad.

3. Censored Says:
   April 15th, 2010 at 10:58 pm

   When it comes to real controversy (like the kind that reveals an uncomfortable truth), many Americans will hide it away under the rug. Damn it, we’re angry, so you have to be perpetually indignant and worship our suffering with us–even if your suffering is demonstrably and infinitely larger and greater than ours. If you fail to worship our suffering with us, even if you do have your own problems, we’ll label you as heartless and your comments about proportionality “unacceptable” and intolerable.

   But when it comes to the “controversy” of social deviance, dig it out from under any rock! We can’t have any of that censorship!

   (Admittedly, a more equivalent comparison than the tsunami would have been Rwanda, where there was a massive deliberate taking of life and a corresponding reluctance to intervene.)

   No one’s saying any suffering should be trivialized, especially a horrific one burned into a national consciousness as this, but don’t give into “false outrage” which reveals your own skewed nationalism when people try to bring some sense of proportion.

4. Ben Says:
   April 19th, 2010 at 2:07 am

   Nice post, but I believe most of these ads are pull from http://www.creativeadawards.com
   I hope you can put a link back to the source.
   Thank you.

Cretique

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