Matron's Blog » News http://blog.acountrypractice.com Wandin Valley Bush Nursing Hospital and a Country Practice updates and news Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:56:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Brian’s controversial ad http://blog.acountrypractice.com/2009/05/28/brians-controversial-ad/ http://blog.acountrypractice.com/2009/05/28/brians-controversial-ad/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 11:04:09 +0000 admin http://blog.acountrypractice.com/?p=50 Per Bedroom ad ruled offensive to men (The Age, May 27, 2009), the Advertising Standards Bureau has forced an Advanced Medical Institute commercial, which featured Brian Wenzel as a police man in a bedroom telling the man in the bed he won’t ticket him for speed if he gets help for his problem, to be pulled from the air. AMI is apparently appealing the decision (ABC News: Men ‘vilified and shamed’ by bedroom police ad – ABC Online).

(See portions of the commercial in an April news slip on Youtube.)

Personally, I don’t see the issue. But, then, I’m not in their target demographic. I wonder — were the people who complained people who might actually benefit from the service but were offended by the delivery, or just the usual suspects who feel it is their duty to complain at the drop of a hat on behalf of someone else?

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