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After approximately one day of outrage, the 'Man in the High Castle' subway car ad campaign is no more, though who made the decision to stop it remains in doubt. According to Deadline (which cites "sources"), the Mta elected to remove the WWII Axis power imagery from its subway cars "after some pressure from high up the Empire state and NYC food chain." Very high up indeed: New York City mayor Bill de Blasio said in a statement that they should be removed, and Entertainment Weekly quoted Mta spokesperson Adam Lisberg as saying that New York governor Andrew Cuomo "asked the head of the Mta to make sure they were pulled." Variety, on the other hand, has a different Mta spokesperson, Kevin Ortiz, saying that "Amazon has just decided to pull the ads." Meanwhile, NBC News went right down the middle, saying that Amazon "asked for the shuttle train advertisements,...
- 11/25/2015
- by Sara Morrison
- Hitfix
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Amazon has pulled ads for its series The Man in the High Castle plastered throughout the New York City subway system that featured symbols from Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, Variety reports.
The new series, based on Philip K. Dick's 1962 novel of the same name, is an alternate history that imagines a world where the Allies lost World War II. The American coasts are controlled by Nazi and Japanese puppet regimes, while a free section remains in the Rocky Mountains.
The now-nixed promotion included posters in 260 subway stations, as...
The new series, based on Philip K. Dick's 1962 novel of the same name, is an alternate history that imagines a world where the Allies lost World War II. The American coasts are controlled by Nazi and Japanese puppet regimes, while a free section remains in the Rocky Mountains.
The now-nixed promotion included posters in 260 subway stations, as...
- 11/25/2015
- Rollingstone.com
A very minor furor has erupted over the tastefulness of some outdoor print ads for Amazon Studios' new "The Man in the High Castle" series.
Kevin Ortiz, a spokesman for New York City Transit and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, tells Variety that Amazon has decided to pull the ads for the series from New York City subways.
The series is set in an alternate 1960s where the Axis powers won World War II with the United States now rendered an occupied territory. The ads, appearing on the shuttle line that runs between Grand Central Station and Times Square, used insignia and iconography suggesting Nazi and Japanese Imperial control of America.
Katherine Lam of Pix11 snapped some photos of the offending ads in question on her Twitter feed. You can see the shots below:
42nd St shuttle to #TimesSquare covered in Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan symbols for @amazon ad.
Kevin Ortiz, a spokesman for New York City Transit and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, tells Variety that Amazon has decided to pull the ads for the series from New York City subways.
The series is set in an alternate 1960s where the Axis powers won World War II with the United States now rendered an occupied territory. The ads, appearing on the shuttle line that runs between Grand Central Station and Times Square, used insignia and iconography suggesting Nazi and Japanese Imperial control of America.
Katherine Lam of Pix11 snapped some photos of the offending ads in question on her Twitter feed. You can see the shots below:
42nd St shuttle to #TimesSquare covered in Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan symbols for @amazon ad.
- 11/24/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
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