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.

Comments

Re:It happened because it's Boston

[ZorbaTHut]

Actually, the problem wasn't that the ceiling tiles were glued to the ceiling. The problem was that they were glued badly. The concept was perfectly safe and reasonable, and is a commonly-used construction technique. They just fucked it up.

There were huge criminial-negligence-caliber mistakes made. But the simple fact that they decided to glue ceiling tiles to the ceiling wasn't one of them.

Re:Buck Stops At The Top

[FuzzyFox]

It was Cartoon Network, not Comedy Central.