Playboy After Hours

December, 1989

Ad NewsA Washington, D.C., friend claims that he has spotted a hot newspaper trend--"newsads." He says that the placement of certain advertisements close to certain news stories seems too serendipitous to be true. For example, he cites a Washington Post account of a NATO summit meeting that ran very near a Pan Am advertisement. The ad's tag line? Invade Europe. The Post also twinned a story about the downfall of House Speaker Jim Wright with a Honda-dealership ad that read, meet a frie...