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| Subject: OZschwitz idiot: Watchdog rules ads unfit for television Fri Jun 29, 2012 5:11 am | |
| ADS for bad driving and fast food have been banned by the advertising regulator.
Subway will rename its Chicken Fillet Sub the Chicken Classic, after the advertising watchdog ruled the original description was misleading or deceptive as the product contained processed meat and not a genuine chicken fillet.
And an ad for a free breakdown recovery service will be withdrawn after the Advertising Standards Bureau found it trivialised unsafe driving. In the UltraTune ad two young women drive their car into a lake while distracted. The ad shows the women ignoring the car's GPS while they chat and drive into the water.
The bureau received emotional complaints about the UltraTune ad. One said: ''Our family lost five members in an accident in which they drowned … As you can understand this is upsetting to us.''
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/watchdog-rules-ads-unfit-for-television-20120628-21599.html#ixzz1zAiOchDq
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