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Another Super Bowl Commercial Under Attack

Posted by DFO

Feb. 8, 2007 1:28 p.m. • 0 comments

Earlier this week, gays were up in arms about that Snickers commercial during the Super Bowl in which two mechanics accidentally kissed. The ad was benched as homophobic. Now, suicide preventionists are angry. In a framegrab photo provided by General Motors, a GM robot is seen from the automaker’s Super Bowl ad. The ad which also shows the quality-obsessed robot jumping off a bridge in a dream sequence after screwing up on the job is drawing criticism from a suicide prevention group/AP Photo.

Question: Are the criticisms of these ads legit? Or over-the-top from groups seeking publicity?

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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.