Porsche removes religious statue from ad.
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Yep. Way back in ye olden times I worked for an IT firm that installed a large SAN for a big name advertising agency. While I was hanging out doing performance testing I talked to a couple of the video editors and they showed me a their edit sheets.
A lot of the editing notes from their Don Draper types were kind of hilariously mean spirited. They wanted all the ugly, fat and "too ethnic" looking people brushed out.
Stuff like "36 seconds - get rid of the fat fuck with sagging pants". Literally every pixel in a million dollar campaign is scrutinized over and over (and over) again. I guarantee that someone high up the food chain said something like "lose the fucking Jesus statue".
I have some sympathy for them not wanting to include a religious symbol in material that might air in any given region. It's not their fault people get butthurt about that. OTOH the way to do that is not to edit a fucking landmark out of a city. Technology has made this, perhaps, too easy. In another time, they would have been forced to just pick a different shot.