Nike to drop Hyperdunk ads some see as homophobic

Nike said Friday it would pull its ads for its Hyperdunk basketball shoes, responding to criticism that they fed homophobic views.

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FDA says Pfizer's online Viagra ad did not mention risks

Federal regulators have warned Pfizer Inc. for not mentioning the risks of Viagra in an advertisement featuring country musicians singing the praises of its popular impotency pill.

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Excerpt from article:"This is a project that Mr. Craft feels is important and wanted to fund," he said. "The reality is that if this building is not constructed, this pledge will not be fulfilled."

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Whenever there is a story written about ads in video games, gamers come out in droves to condemn the practice. They won't buy games with ads in them, they say. It's a terrible practice, we hear.

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The House Communications Subcommittee has approved a bill that would require the broadcast and cable industries, which includes satellite and other multichannel video providers, to regularize the volume of advertisements and the programming surrounding them.

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Did you know that FAIL Blog serves up 22 million video views per month, and Engadget gets at least 2.3 million monthly views for its gadget videos, while Joystiq gets another 2 million? All three blogs use Viddler, which is now selling ads directly for its top content providers t …

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excerpt: ""Meet Stacie Ritter. She's a hardworking mother of twins who lives in Pennsylvania. Her daughters, now 11, were diagnosed with leukemia when they were four. They both needed stem cell transplants and other cancer treatments.

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Hollywood icon James Dean is the star of a new television advertisement for an investment firm in South Africa. The advertisement features imagined scenes from Dean's life had he survived the car crash that killed him in 1955 at the age of 24.

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Microsoft Corp. has filed five lawsuits aimed at halting the flow of malicious online advertising.

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excerpt: ""Well, actually, Beck was complaining about the number of czars in the Obama administration - he says Obama has too many. Too bad then that George W. Bush had more czars than Obama. Funny that Beck didn't mention that fact to his viewer.""

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this is so. very. wrong. on so many levels. ugh.

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State propaganda outlets prevent thoughtcrime.

Rejoice, proletariat! NBC and ABC have protected us from the poisonous, opposing views that foolishly dispute the TRUTH from comrade Obama.

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[Manila, Philippines] Among other meanings, "puno" means tree, and Interior and Local Government Secretary Ronaldo Puno won't let us forget it.

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ABC and NBC have refused to run a national ad critical of President Obama's health care reform plan.

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Just put a drop in her drink on the sly, and watch her repeated "No, go away"s turn into Yes! The blog quotes an ad that was allegedly found in Men's Health magazine:

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The network — already taking criticism for declining to run an ad criticizing Lou Dobbs — is now refusing to run an ad nationally criticizing the insurance industry, the group that tried to place the ad tells me.

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She's hitting the news again...

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A Chinese woman seeking a husband posted an advertisement "that required candidates to complete a 'written test'."

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A funny cell phone advertisement by an Israeli cell phone company tries to take a light hearted approach, by depicting a series of events which leads to Israeli soldiers and unseen Palestinians kicking a soccer ball back and forth, in all good fun, over the barrier wall.

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Two sexy burger ad revelations today. First, the burger-as-blow-job Burger King ad burst onto the scene, second, The Hills' Audrina Partridge becomes the latest scantily clad lady to make love to, I mean, to lustily eat a Carl's Jr. burger.

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Accurate to 1 second in a million years, it features atomic timekeeping - ensuring perfect timing by receiving signals from UK, European, American and Japanese radio transmitters. Watch can be set manually for countries with no signal.

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Buckmaster urged McMaster to "reconsider and retract your remarks, and positively affirm that you have no intention of launching criminal investigations aimed at any of these upstanding companies, because in truth none of them are deserving of such treatment."

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A District Heights man has been charged with attacking a woman he met through an ad for erotic services on Craigslist. Kelvin Cousar, 36, is charged with first-degree assault and other crimes in the April 12 attack at a hotel in Waldorf.

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A giant image of Chancellor Angela Merkel wearing just bra and pants has been attracting intense attention on Berlin's premier shopping drag, the 'Ku'damm'.

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House Republicans are using images of the Pentagon burning on 9/11 and President Obama's "bow" to the Saudi leader in a video that accuses the president of making America less safe in his first 100 days.

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A quote from the person who put this video up on YouTube: "This is a spot from Argentina which includes a transgender woman. It talks about tolerance and teaches us that all people are the same even if they are straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender."

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Then came Lauren, the perky, red-haired twentysomething meant to represent an average American shopping for a computer. She wants a notebook with a 17-in. screen, and if she finds it for less than $1,000, she can keep it.

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