Chin’s controversial ad promoting Australian lamb; new ABC head needs to brush up on interview skills; it’s Logies voting time and streaming is on the rise The Australia Day lamb ad featuring SBS presenter Lee Lin Chin may be banned next week after the Advertising Standards Bureau’s board fast tracked its review. The advertisement for lamb,by industry group Meat & Livestock Australia, has received an unprecedented 300-plus complaints since it went to air on Monday. In the ad Chin leads a military operation to extract “stranded” Australians from around the world, and bringing them domestic for an Australia Day lamb meal. But hundreds of viewers bear complained approximately the violence in the commercial during which a vegan’s domestic is torched by the military. A spokeswoman for the watchdog told Weekly Beast up to 90% of the cases considered by the board are dismissed. Complaints approximately the Australia Day lamb campaign featuring “lambassador” Sam Kekovich bear been dismissed in previous years. Each year only approximately 10% are upheld and in those cases the ads bear been found to bear breached the advertising codes of practice. When a complaint is upheld,the advertiser has to pull the offending ad off air. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com