R-rated ads spicing up WaPo’s kids section

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A good place not to run Showtime’s blood-spattered Dexter ads: in a special newspaper section for children. The Washington Post ignored that rule, and got an earful from its ombudsman. Then again, these kids have seen it all, having previously enjoyed a body lotion ad with a naked woman in the same section. And they say newspapers can’t sell ads anymore.

—Posted by Tim Nudd

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