McDonald’s pulls out TV ad amid church anger
04/14/2011US fast-food chain McDonald’s said Wednesday it had scrapped a television commercial in the devoutly Catholic Philippines after facing a barrage of criticism from church leaders.
“We recognize and respect the stand of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) and have stopped airing the said commercial across all television stations,” McDonald’s said in a statement.
In the commercial, a girl who looks to be only five or six years old asks a boy of the same age if she can be his girlfriend. The boy curtly rejects her, complaining that girlfriends are too demanding..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/metro/20110414met6.html
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