Source: Entertainment Wire
By: Company Press Release
(SEATTLE, WA) — The Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly and USA Today rejected an ad submitted by Internet Entertainment Group of Seattle inviting TV bride Darva Conger to pose for its popular clublove.com Website for $1 million.
Seth Warshavsky, president of IEG, says the Los Angeles Daily News did accept the ad, which will run on Friday.
Mr. Warshavsky announced on Monday that he is prepared to hire a top photographer to portray Ms Conger in “a tasteful nude pictorial” for the Website. To make sure Ms. Conger received his invitation, he created an ad he wanted to run in the Los Angeles Times, but the newspaper turned it down, saying “unfortunately we will be unable to run your ad in our paper” because it was rejected by the paper’s standards department. Mr. Warshavsky then submitted the ad to USA Today and the LA Weekly, and got a similar response from both.
“The Los Angeles Times and USA Today standards departments claimed the papers do not accept ads from adult companies, but there was nothing in the ad that could remotely be construed adult,” said Mr. Warshavsky. “The LA Weekly is chock full of ads for adult enterprises. It is hypocritical for these papers to reject our company. In the case of The Times, this is even more bizarre since this is a paper that seemed to have no scruples about running an entire editorial section on the Staples Center without telling its readers that Staples was sponsoring the section. The Times was forced to apologize to its readers for that lapse in judgment, so maybe now it is trying to avoid criticism for accepting the ‘wrong’ kind of ad.”
The advertisement read: “Darva Conger, the whole world has fallen in love with you. We want to make sure you have a real chance to earn the money you so richly deserve, so we hereby offer to you $1 million to pose on clublove.com. Please call me. Seth Warshavsky. Tele: 206-622-3385.”
Internet Entertainment Group is a Seattle-based Web content provider and Internet e-commerce development company. Its clublove.com Website has previously carried nude photos of Dr. Laura Schlessinger, rock musician Keith Richards, and TV actress Pamela Anderson.
