The ad crusade was stand for to boost The Man in the High Castle , Amazon ’s newfangled , alternate history TV serial publication based on a Philip K. Dick novel where the Axis mightiness win World War II . The campaign covered subway benches in American flag whose fifty stars have been swapped out for a Nazi coat of arms , as well as a mutation of the Rising Sun flag of Imperial Japan , retouched with American colors .
How , in fact , Amazon conk out to realize that this kind of imagination might have a stir remains unsung . ( Probably , that remote hypothesis was cautiously weighed against the thought that paint the interior of the MTA ’s most intemperately patronized underground cars with an ad for the crown jewel in Amazon ’s growing collection of original series was going to glance over in a shit short ton of money . )
In any font , following a societal medium uproar Monday evening , and Mayor Bill de Blasio himselfcalling the ads “ irresponsible and offensive”on Tuesday , Amazon seems to have gotten the substance that Americans are n’t too not bad about being push to ride on the flags of Nazi America . This morning , aVariety reportquoted MTA spokesperson Kevin Ortiz saying that “ Amazon has just decided to pull the ads . ”
forty-second St shuttlecock to#TimesSquarecovered in Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan symbol for@amazonad . Is this ok?pic.twitter.com / ysJ3m0UIPT
— Katherine Lam ( @byKatherineLam)November 23 , 2015
Between pique million of New Yorkers and successfullysending a arugula to the edge of space and back this first light , it ’s been a troubled workweek for Jeff Bezos .
[ Mashable ]
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