I am grateful to a colleague for this photo of an ad stuck on the front cover of the Bangkok Post. The Visa advertisement covered up a front page news story and was much bigger than the stuck on ads
I am grateful to a colleague for this photo of an ad stuck on the front cover of the Bangkok Post. The Visa advertisement covered up a front page news story and was much bigger than the stuck on ads
I’ve not seen this on any of the copies here in Thailand – and I get a copy every day. I wonder if it’s something the publisher is doing or whether it’s being done somewhere else?
The same ad was also on a copy of The Nation bought at Suvarnabhumi on Tuesday 19/8/08. So possibly not the publisher.
Interesting … the shops at Suvarnabhumi are all operated by Asia Books so I wonder if they are responsible. As a publisher I would be furious if someone posted ads on my title without permission, although I’m not saying that is what has happened.
Mark – can you ask your colleague for any more information about this? I’m really keen to find out more, such as where the copy in question was purchased (air-side or land-side) or whether it was a comp. copy?
Thanks.
Have a look at my blog today and you’ll see The Bangkok Post is further desecrating editorial with advertising embedded within stories.
Has anyone seen anything like this before?