Cooler heads prevail over Sony Bravia ad

For what it’s worth, the U.K.’s Advertising Standards Authority has decided not to pursue an investigation into whether the new Sony Bravia spot (above), featuring paint explosions covering an-about-to-be-demolished apartment building, is inappropriate because of today’s climate of terror threats. There is a news item about this in The Guardian, for which you’ll need a subscription—and while we don’t usually link to sources that require registration, this whole complaint seemed so dopey in the first place we thought it worth mentioning that the alleged controversy will go no farther.

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