Talking Meatball Terrifies Boston

Today's medianote was about the guerrilla marketing campaign by Turner Broadcasting for the “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” animated movie. (For the uninitiated, the "Hunger Force" includes a milk shake, a floating order of fries and a talking meatball.) In Boston, officials believed the blinky signs placed on bridges and tunnels might be bombs and shut down traffic, creating chaos. Two guys who placed the blinky signs around town were arrested, released, and the television company has been fined.

MC101 students generally had a hard time thinking that a few glowing TV ads could be mistaken for a terrorist plot. Here's the a National Public Radio story that we listened to on this topic.

Gabcast! Club MediaNote #17