‘Daily News’: Only Clothing Is Offensive

The Daily News achieved another victory for the war on jackets with fake bullet holes in them yesterday, when the Good Day Philadelphia anchors apologized on-air for giving away promotional items for the movie Shoot ‘Em Up. (Oh, yeah, and the apology story has been picked up by the AP. But of course.)

You may recall, in yesterday’s Jill Porter column, she whined about how Clayton Morris and Sue Serio gave away a jacket with bullet holes in it. Because people get murdered in this city, this is apparently offensive — and Porter went to the DA’s office to let them know how offensive it was, too.

To give Serio and Morris some credit, they actually made a real apology and not some sort of “I’m sorry some of you were offended” fake apology. Morris even took a page out of the book of Daniel McQuade and called himself an idiot. To avoid offending people in the future, I’d suggest sticking with time-tested non-offensive content, like dancing mascots.

The offensive part of the promotion seems to be a bullet-hole ridden jacket for a movie titled Shoot ‘Em Up, which seems like a particularly appropriate type of giveaway for a movie with that title. In fact, the Daily News itself seems to owe us an apology, since the DN gave away prize packs for the movie Shoot ‘Em Up, which — from a quick glance at other giveaways from that movie — appear to be a Playstation 2 with a gun accessory.

How dare the Daily News teach young children how to kill with a PS2. They might turn into thugs! The blood of the innocents is on your hands, Daily News.

You got me, though: I only really wanted to write about this so I could run a photo of Monica Bellucci.

WTXF anchors apologize for ‘Shoot ‘Em Up’ promotion [Daily News]