Erin Brockovich forces NZ firm to drop sexist ad
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Renowned U.S. environment crusader Erin Brockovich has forced a New Zealand retailer to drop a controversial advertisement because of an insulting reference to women, local media reported on Friday.
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A New York TV station drops a promotion for a controversial film about sex researcher Alfred Kinsey.
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The heat's been turned off on the Hugh Grant legume litigation.
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QualityStocks.net requests that their press release BW5984 issued Feb.  1, 2007 entitled "Intelligentias to Sponsor in  Small-Cap Stock Newsletter: QualityStocks.net Daily Newsletter and  QualityStocks Daily Internet Video Broadcast"  be killed.
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In the companyâs new ad campaign, 18 women step up to deliver a unified message: Weâre athletes, so ditch the female modifier.
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Google decided to cancel a party believed to have angered eBay executives and prompted eBay to remove its ads from the U.S. AdWords network.
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Irish Singer Sinead O&#39;Connor has taken out an advert urging the media to leave her alone after being criticised for proposing a &quot;national delousing day&quot;.
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The company that produced a commercial featuring two animated pandas speaking with what were intended as Chinese accents is withdrawing the ads after complaints.
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Each year at the HSBC Womenâs World Match Play Championship, some of the worldâs best golfers are quickly dismissed.
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Tony O'Reilly's bid to buy one of Australia's leading media groups is thwarted after it failed to win enough support.
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Footwear maker Dr. Martens apologized  on Friday for any offense caused by ads showing four dead rock  icons wearing its boots in heaven -- and fired its advertising  agency, which, in turn, dismissed an employee it found at  fault.
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New advertising for Viagra that depicts men who take it as devilish drew criticism from the Food and Drug Administration, leading its maker, Pfizer, to say yesterday that it would discontinue the campaign.
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Lycos Europe has axed the distribution of a controversial screensaver designed to target websites that profit from spam, claiming that the company has made its point.
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A racy ad for a vendor of Web site names was pulled at the last minute from a second showing during the Super Bowl telecast on Sunday after NFL executives objected that the spot made light of Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" incident in last year's halftime show.
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RED-FACED Telstra executives were scrambling last night to undo damage caused by a massive print advertising campaign that directed fans of Australian Idol winner Casey Donovan to a graphic gay porn website.
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For two weeks, signs with Rupert Murdochâs face on them have been posted around The Wall Street Journalâs newsroom â and removed and posted and removed and posted yet again.
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A poster claiming that gay people want to "abolish the family" is criticised by the advertising watchdog.