Clear Channel’s hypocritic oath

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The Diary is bored. This whole flyposting debate caused by Ansell Healthcare’s “i shagged here.com” campaign has been good only for curing the Diary’s insomnia.

Maiden and Clear Channel have been incessantly dinning into us the evils of flyposting. Fair enough you might counter, and why not? Well, Clear Channel for one should first cast the plank out of its own eye, before that of its proverbial brother.

Pictured is a flyposted advertisement for a Julio Iglesias concert. On a Maiden site. Flyposted by…? None other than Clear Channel’s sister company, Clear Channel Entertainment.

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