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No joke, Cartoon Network head gone
Posted on February 9, 2007 4:06 PM
Get me to a Mega Millions seller, I have the gift of foresight.
I knew someone at Turner Broadcasting was going to get capped when their little marketing stunt caused the City of Boston to go all War of the Worlds and freak out over those Adult Swim Mooninite Lite Brites around the city.
No company dishes out a two-million dollar check as an apology without getting a pound of flesh off of someone in the corporate Matrix. At Cartoon Network, it ended up being their top guy getting a chance to try out the world's best job search site...
The head of Cartoon Network resigned Friday, citing his role in last week's terrorism scare in Boston."Botched," yeah, that's one way of putting a $2 mil PR disaster...
The departure of Jim Samples as Cartoon Networks general manager came in the wake of a botched marketing promotion for a show called "Aqua Teen Hunger Force."
On Friday, Samples fell on his sword, saying he would leave the company. He has worked at Turner for 13 years.That had to hurt. I fell on an empty beer bottle once. It didn't break, but I think I cracked a rib...
Turner has not said whether others have been or will be reprimanded because of the incident. "That's an internal issue," said spokeswoman Shirley Powell.Sure, like the red hot pokers aren't being inserted into marketing orifices while interns at Turner take notes. For anyone who cares, this is my 200th post since taking over SimplyFired. It's Friday night, lift one for the Fred while you're out lying to someone about how much money you make.
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