Monday, February 1, 2010

Those #%*! sticker ads

Pet Peeve Edition: Those sticker ads on front pages make me crazy. It's bad enough when a newspaper's flag or lead story is covered by a sticker advertising cheap beer or carpeting. (You have to peel the sticker off, and half the ink from the story underneath comes off with it.) But in election season, occasionally you'll get political ads stuck over the top of the front page -- vote for so-and-so.

To me, that crosses a significant ethical line. To many readers, it looks like an endorsement.

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