Cloak & Swagger
12-01-2006, 10:24 PM
Via Engadget by Peter Rojas (http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/benq-uses-wtc-and-9-11-imagery-to-sell-devices/)
We're not exactly what you'd call sanctimonious -- we try not to take ourselves or what we're doing too seriously -- but we feel obligated to call BenQ out for using an image of a crumbled World Trade Center in an ad for its new MusiQ campaign. We'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they don't understand how wrong it is to use the imagery of 9/11 to push products, but ultimately what they're doing is simply not acceptable. BenQ, do us all a favor, focus on your namesake ("Bringing Enjoyment and Quality to life") and don't ever try to be this kind of "hopeful" again.
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e294/cloakandswaggeronlineimages2/forum%20plugs/benq-musiq-4usesWTCimagery.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/benq-uses-wtc-and-9-11-imagery-to-sell-devices/)
We're not exactly what you'd call sanctimonious -- we try not to take ourselves or what we're doing too seriously -- but we feel obligated to call BenQ out for using an image of a crumbled World Trade Center in an ad for its new MusiQ campaign. We'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they don't understand how wrong it is to use the imagery of 9/11 to push products, but ultimately what they're doing is simply not acceptable. BenQ, do us all a favor, focus on your namesake ("Bringing Enjoyment and Quality to life") and don't ever try to be this kind of "hopeful" again.
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e294/cloakandswaggeronlineimages2/forum%20plugs/benq-musiq-4usesWTCimagery.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/benq-uses-wtc-and-9-11-imagery-to-sell-devices/)