Turkey: Hrant Dink’s family to get compensation

15 Sep 2010 | Index Index, minipost

The European Court of Human Rights ruled on 14 September that Turkey must pay compensation to the family of murdered journalist Hrant Dink. The court said the sum of 133,000 euros was awarded because the government failed to protect the Turkish-Armenian writer. The verdict highlighted the state’s lack of respect for freedom of expression, and its failure to conduct a thorough investigation into the murder. The Turkish Foreign Ministry has said it will not appeal the decision. The family plans to donate the money to educational charities.

Pregnant nun ad banned

15 Sep 2010 | Uncategorized

pregnant nun ad
I’ll have to admit: I don’t get the “pregnant nun” ad for Antonio Federici ice cream, which has been banned cos Catholics might get upset. I’m not sure what they’re getting at. I mean, there’s “buy our ice-cream. It’s nice”, obviously. But “immaculately conceived”? That might, might make sense if it was magical, no calories ice-cream, without “sin”. But that doesn’t seem to be the case. Is it that nuns get pregnant from ice-cream? That the ice-cream’s made by the Virgin Mary? What’s the joke?

The best part of the story is this:

The firm said it also wished to “comment on and question, using satire and gentle humour, the relevance and hypocrisy of religion and the attitudes of the church to social issues”.

What? Really? Has the Vatican been especially hypocritical about ice cream lately? and is it the purpose of advertising for the Antonio Federici ice cream company to highlight the Vatican’s hypocrisy? Shouldn’t the main aim of advertising for the Antonio Federici ice cream company be to sell Antonio Federici ice cream?

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Stewart Lee:

Anyway, now the ad’s been banned and I’ve heard of Antonio Federici ice cream. And I’m writing about it.

Job done.

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