As I scrolled down through the story, a ran across an ad on the right side of the page. It was for Healthy Choice “Cafe Steamers” microwave meals. My face immediately contorted itself, halfway between a snicker and an “Oh my God” expression. Oy!
I saw a screenshot allegedly of MSNBC’s front page on September 11, 2001, that had a photo of the explosion from a plane crashing into one WTC tower just above an ad for frequent flyer miles from (I think) Delta Airlines.
I say allegedly because I imagine it’d be easy to fake such a screenshot.
Heh. Gotta love relevantly-placed ads – even when the body of text they are relevant to is horrifying.
Personally, I love this list of unfortunately positioned ads and items in real life. (Included is a similarly horrifying toddler death/poorly chosen ad)
The Swedish company Locum - or “locum” as they always write it - had a big christmas ad campaign 2001 in which they substituted the “o” for an heart. The “Unfortunated ad placement” here was just about everywhere.