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'Obscene' Ad Refused by Dailies Runs in Alt-Weekly

By AAN Staff

march 28, 2007 02:35 pm

'Obscene' Ad Refused by Dailies Runs in Alt-Weekly

The ~~Hartford~~ New Haven Advocate ran an ad (pictured) last week that was rejected by the New York Times and the New Haven Register because it portrayed a nude figure, the Yale Daily News reports. The ad, for the Yale Repertory Theatre's production of Lulu, featured a photograph of a woman's bare torso with an apple obscuring her pubic area. (The Hartford Courant reproduced a copy of the image for a story it ran after the Times and Register rejected the ad. The Courant, like the New Haven Advocate, is owned by the Tribune Co.) The theater's associate marketing director says that few have raised objections to the ad other than the daily papers.

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