NY Times Advertising Fail

3:54 pm EST May 8th, 2009 | Media | 5 Comments

Beside the story on the apparently obsessed killer of that girl at Wesleyan, is a Netflix ad for Taxi Driver…. Ouch.

Related Posts

  • No Related Post
«
»

5 Responses to “NY Times Advertising Fail”

  1. Duros62 says:
    May 8, 2009 at 5:43 pm

    That’s some target marketing, right there.

  2. SFC B says:
    May 9, 2009 at 2:11 am

    FWIW when I just followed the link and it was selling “The Audacity of Hope” and some David Balducci book.

  3. daniel rotter says:
    May 9, 2009 at 3:27 am

    I don’t really see the problem here. The titular character in Taxi Driver “obsession” with a girl revolved around him getting her to quit her “job” as a prostitute, not killing her.

  4. MatanteDodo says:
    May 9, 2009 at 4:14 pm

    Meh… something probably accidental anyway. Write to them and point it out when it happens, it’s not really news stuff.

  5. gus says:
    May 10, 2009 at 10:49 am

    daniel- read about John Hinckley Jr. Of course there are differences between what Morgan did, the Bickle character did, and what Hinckly did, there is pretty strong similarity between the two real men’s actions: obsessive stalking and violence with a gun.