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Aqua Teen Stunt Costs Turner and Agency $2M

Posted by Zonk on from the can-you-say-extortion dept.

evw writes "The NYTimes reports that the Turner Broadcasting System and the ad agency responsible have reached a $2M settlement with the city of Boston and state and federal agencies that treated the light boards placed around the city as an act of terrorism (as covered earlier on /.) Half of the money is to cover direct costs associated with the response. The other $1M goes to 'goodwill funds' that will be used for response training and public outreach."

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  1. Doesn't anybody find it.... by OneSmartFellow · · Score: 1, Redundant

    ...a little odd that a settlement has already been reached ? As several posters have already alluded, it's almost like it was pre-arranged ? If this was a 'genuine' case of a mis-represented bomb hoax wouldn't Turner be up in arms about the aspersions, and be fighting to have it's name cleared, let alone fighting any payment ? The whole thing seems very strange to me.

    Something is wrotten in the state of Mass-of-two-shits.

  2. Cheap by __aahlyu4518 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That is peanuts for so much publicity !