Oh dear. We’re only two months into 2018 and already the winner for ‘headline fail of the year’ appears to have been found. The Irish Herald today publishes a report on a man who ‘lived’ in a flat with his ‘dead wife’s body in a wardrobe for 48 hours’.
Rather unfortunately the accompanying half page advert is for… discount wardrobes:
And the winner of the 2018 most inappropriate product placement in a newspaper goes to the @Herald_ie pic.twitter.com/85qJUgqNSQ
— Tony – Pod Guy – Groves (@Trickstersworld) February 19, 2018
Mr S hopes that this wasn’t advertising selling against the story…
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