Picture of Blair is not offensive…

# on November 30th 2006 at 9:10 am in General

Well, the one with a barcode on his upper lip isn’t:

I just caught this article on the Register about an ASA complaint about a Guardian advertisement against the usage of ID cards. This one:

The Register article states that, apparently, the ..

NO2ID made clear they had worked hard to make Blair look like Hitler.

Worked hard to make Blair look like Hitler? It seems to me that they just converted an existing image to black- and white and slapped a barcode on it.

Anyways, still it’s a good thing the ad wasn’t pulled, nor any fines had to be payed because the ad so very definitely makes a point.

- Navaho Gunleg
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