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EasyJet recalls magazine with Holocaust memorial fashion shoot
Published: 24 Nov 09 10:14 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/society/20091124-23481.html
British discount airline easyJet has recalled some 280,000 copies of its in-flight magazine after complaints about a fashion shoot staged at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial, daily Financial Times Deutschland reported on Tuesday.
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According to the paper, easyJet issued a statement apologising to anyone who may have been offended by the magazine spread, explaining that it had been produced by an external advertising agency.
Meanwhile a spokesperson for the Foundation for the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe told the paper that the agency did not register to take the photographs at the site in central Berlin.
Foundation Director Uwe Neumärker also said that only projects “that have a contextual reference to the memorial” are allowed to use the site and commercial activities are strictly forbidden.
The paper said easyJet is now reviewing their relationship with the company that produced the photo shoot.
The Local (news@thelocal.de)
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well what happened the right to freedom of speech?
OK, I'll take a leek on your grave in the name of "freedom of speech".
Deccie: "I read the mag last week and i actually thought the photos were very good. Sometimes I wonder why people get upset....."
Commentor: "well what happened the right to freedom of speech?"
No wonder that a 13-year-old kills a 9-year-old just to see how it feels...
No wonder that young people (or should I say animals) beat and kick elder human beings to death...
Any more of these extremely superficial comments here? They are not even superficial anymore, these comments are way below superficial.
http://australiansforpalestine.com/hass-what-does-israel-have-against-a-palestinian-stadium
Wonder if the referred advertising firm would like to do some *SHOOTINGS* in a DEVASTATED FOOTBALL STADIUM.
(That's why it's "free speech" and not "consequence-free speech). Choosing a venue that upsets a lot of people is generally not a good idea for a marketing campaign. HINT: Pretty much anything to do with the Nazis or the Holocaust should not be used for marketing. It tends to upset people. (I know, I know, who would ever have guessed?)
I'm pretty sure it would be the wrong venue for a pr0n movie, too. Even if it was a patriotic and tasteful film. (You know, something Uwe Boll would produce.)
/sarcasm
Also to say tha the photos were nice and that it's not a big deal? Really now, are you just trying to get a rise out of people?
People who are making such comments here (or anywhere else on the subject for that matter) should go take a walk through Sachsenhausen or Auschwitz. Maybe consider what the memorial is representing.
There is no excuse. It's beyond tasteless and classless to be so nonchalant about something like the Holocaust.
I'm an American athiest with no affiliations to anything. I would no sooner be so disrepectful than I would go off on a kllling spree. I pity your hollowness. Please rethink your ideas and learn a little respect for others.
Was this agency was so stupid that it forgot the golden rules - Don't mess with the Jews, don't ever complain about them, don't ever challenge their policies in the ME and most certainly never do anything that in a normal expression of freedom of speech would appear as a negative comment about the Holocaust! It is not accepted and will never be so.
Conducting a mindless fashion photo shoot at a memorial to a murdered people is in poor taste.
I can't believe that there were enough people who believed this would be a good idea to actually make it happen.
I also can't believe that this could be seen as a free speech issue - it was printed, wasn't it? Or that some would suggest oversensitivity on the part of the people who suffered extreme losses in the Holocaust. Or maybe I can - there is a car with a huge Böhse Onkelz sticker parked down the street, after all...
>> shakes head, gets back to work...