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Undaunted, the combatants have now resumed their fight in print, where American Home Products, a $13.4 billion maker of such brands as Anacin and Preparation H, launched an assault on Tylenol last week. The company paid for a full-page ad in the New York Times and other papers to reprint an open letter written by Antonio Benedi, a former appointments secretary for George Bush, who blames Tylenol for the liver failure that forced him to have an emergency transplant...
Johnson & Johnson was furious not just about the letter but also at the fact that the newspapers published it without labeling it advertising. Worse, in J&J's view, at the bottom of the ad was a message that Whitehall-Robins Healthcare was underwriting the reprint "as a public service." Not exactly, since it's the unit of American Home Products that makes Advil...
Suponcic calls the Canadian back--it is now 5:30 a.m. in that time zone, and he is only too happy to wake the dude up--and he demands to know what is going on. The guy explains, vaguely, that he was merely answering an "ad on the Internet. You know, the one about horny housewives...
...have a problem. Suponcic, like a lot of people, has a new computer. But like most people, he hardly knows what the Internet is. Now, somewhere there's an ad on it. For horny housewives. With his home phone number...
...maybe it sounded better on paper. Taco Bell pulled out of future Carvey shows the day after the premiere, though the company wouldn't say whether it objected to the ribald skits (which included a prosthetically enhanced President Clinton breast-feeding animals) or the darts aimed at the ad business. ABC quickly promised to tame the show, and Pepsico decided to limit sponsorship to its less familial, more attitude-seeking brands, and thus was born last week's somewhat safer episode, The Mug Root Beer Dana Carvey Show...