Cartoon Network CEO Resigns Over Aqua Teen Scare

DesertBlade writes "Jim Samples, CEO of Cartoon Network, has resigned over the bomb scare prompted by the Aqua Teen marketing campaign. Turner (CN's parent company) ended up paying over 2 million in restitution to the city of Boston, and a man with a thirteen year record at the company has lost his job. Though many people have been citing this as 'the ultimate successful advertising campaign', there have obviously been real consequences from the incident." By virtue of the consequences of the campaign, was this now officially a bad idea? Or is your opinion that this is all far too much knee-jerking? Have your say in the comments.

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Re:Aqua Teen Hunger Force sucks

[The Real Toad King]

Thank you for your insightful and totally on-topic reply Anonymous Coward! For you, I TURN MY CAPS LOCK KEY ON.

Re:No

[gbulmash]

They won't be leaving fucking light-brites at the side of the road.

If they thought we'd ignore them, why wouldn't they? It's easy to Monday morning quarterback and criticize the actions of others when you've never been in that position or had that responsibility.

If you knew that if you screwed up, people could die, would you be as as cavalier about an incident like this?

And while some of you say you'd rather die than have to put up with this paranoia, I say fuck you, you narcissistic pricks. I've got a kid. And if a little overreaction means the difference between drawing flowers with him and placing flowers on his grave, then I'm all for a little overreaction.