{"id":7786,"date":"2011-06-17T08:02:52","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T04:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=7786"},"modified":"2011-06-17T08:03:52","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T04:03:52","slug":"what-were-they-thinking-advertising-gone-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-business\/middle-east-media-analysis\/what-were-they-thinking-advertising-gone-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Advertising: No Subject for a Play on Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tunisiaAd.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7787\" title=\"tunisiaAd\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tunisiaAd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tunisiaAd.jpg 498w, https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tunisiaAd-145x93.jpg 145w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a>I\u2019ve just stumbled upon this advert currently adorning the sides of  buses in London. It\u2019s from the Tunisian tourist authority and shows, as  you can see, a semi naked woman getting a massage with the line next to  it saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They say that in Tunisia, some people receive heavy-handed treatment<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a revolting play on their recent struggles; directly and  unequivocally playing on the brutality of their security forces.<\/p>\n<p>I know they say that there\u2019s no such thing as bad publicity, but this must come close. Epically poor taste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVID ROBERTS: Other people&#8217;s suffering is not the obvious subject of a play on words in advertising &#8211; and sometimes a negative cannot and should not be turned into a positive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":7787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,140,44],"tags":[312,630,18322],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}