• By Hamilton Nolan
    Sep 19, 2008 5:59 PM 453
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    A PR guy sent an email to the Anti-Advertising Agency, saying they could pay money in order to "participate in a brand integration campaign within the actual lyrics of one of the worlds most famous recording artists upcoming song/album." The AAA—an anti-advertising group—blogged about it, leading commenters to rightly call the PR guy a moron. Which caused the PR guy to threaten to sue the AAA for posting his email. Moron. [Wired via Radar]


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