From AdRants…
It’s important to blog judiciously. One blogger revealed how the Maine Office of Tourism’s ad lead to an “unsavory” phone answering service. For that the blogger is being sued even though it obviously was the ad agencies fault!
A blogger, Lance Dutson, has been sued by Warren Kremmer Paino Advertising for defamation, libel and copyright infringement. Basically, Dutson called attention to an ad he found on the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development website which carries a telephone number that, apparently by mistake, leads to some sort of dating/phone sex operation. The Maine Office of Tourism and its agency Warren Kremmer Paino weren’t too pleased Dutson called attention to the ad which, according to Dutson, was publicly available on a website. While we don’t claim to have intimate knowledge of all the details (there summed up here) the saga, it seems, is yet another example of how poorly large organizations react to having their dirty laundry aired when a simple, “Oops, we’re sorry, we goofed,” would suffice.
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