No free advertising for you!
– Photos from Kansas City Star (left) and Pitch
Romenesko reader Brig McCoy writes: “Seems strange that the local alt paper (The Pitch) ‘blacked out’ the billboard in question. Kansas City Star, on the other hand, printed the billboard as is.” (There’s a controversy over the city trying to have it removed to make way for a hotel.) I asked Pitch editor Scott Wilson about this and he wrote in an email: “It was a Sprint ad, and we simply didn’t want to seem to endorse or advertise for Sprint.”
* Lowball condemnation offer on billboard lands city in court (pitch.com)
* Courtroom battle over billboard affects hotel proposal (kcstar.com)
