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Lewis said general unfamiliarity with the Ad Board is the main reason for the meeting...
...Those provocative charges put the U.S. in an awkward position: Scientology is a legally recognized church in the U.S., and its members are entitled to practice their faith freely. Burns, required to stand up for the principle of religious freedom but not to offend a major ally, denounced the ad's over-the-top parallels as "outrageous...
Fields says he was aroused when some members of Germany's Christian Democratic Union Party called for a boycott of Cruise's Mission: Impossible. The boycott failed, but it prompted Fields to write and pay for the $56,700 ad. He insists he was not retained by any Scientology organization and never discussed the ad with anyone affiliated with Scientology. Both Cruise and Travolta, he says, have since thanked him for his initiative...
...techies who run America Online have a pretty shaky grasp of basic math. Let's see: you're the most successful online service in Internet history, with membership rolls shooting up in only three years from 500,000 to 7 million. You're about to launch a snazzy TV ad campaign built around a radical change in pricing policy: from stiff, pay-by-the-hour bills to unlimited all-you-can-eat access to the Internet for $19.95 a month. Yet you have added only a modest number of modems to the 200,000 you already need to service your...
Stim's tale is typical, if you're to believe the Wall Street Journal, which, coincidentally, ran a front-page story the day Stim hit the skids pointing out that too many Web publishers were competing for too few ad dollars. Consequently, lots of them began quitting. The cowards...