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A new Los Angeles Times campaign from Ground Zero has some of the newspaper’s reporters up in arms.
The ads are intended to juxtapose Southern California images with glimpses of the rest of the world, said Dennis Shirley, the newspaper’s vp of marketing. But a group of Times reporters has labeled some of them “offensive.” In a petition, the staffers have asked that the ads be pulled.
One shows bikini-clad women on a beach, then Muslim women dressed in chadors.

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