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Article: The King of bling bling: how an ad for a bar in a Philadelphia alt-weekly, featuring Thailand's monarch in full hip-hop regalia, nearly triggered an international incident.
- Article from:
- American Journalism Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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With his booming voice, senior writer Gale entertained City Paper's weekly news staff meeting June 19 with the message of the missive and the story behind its writing. The letter was a complaint written the day before to bar manager Sherry Levin about an ad in my newspaper.
Daryl Gale's whole body shook with convulsions of laughter as he pulled out a letter he'd been given by the manager of Saint Jack's, a small, dark bar that we newsroom rats like for its $5 hamburger special.
It certainly was not the first advertising complaint City Paper had ever received, considering that we once printed an ad for a bar depicting the Virgin Mary with udders. But ...