Chicago Transit Authority Pulls Grand Theft Auto IV Ads

[Andy Chalk]

Chicago Transit Authority Pulls Grand Theft Auto IV Ads

The Fox News [http://www.transitchicago.com/] equated the ads with "an especially violent weekend" in the city.

GamePolitics [http://gamepolitics.com/2008/04/21/gta-iv-ads-to-be-pulled-from-buses-as-transit-authority-caves-to-pressure/]has uncovered the decision, which came following attempts by Fox to contact CTA President Ron Huberman about the ads. Although Huberman would not speak to Fox on camera, a representative of the transit authority eventually responded to Fox inquiries about the advertisements by saying they would be coming down.

This is the second time the CTA has generated controversy as the result of a Grand Theft Auto ad campaign. In 2004, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, who came under fire in 2007 for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/72243]. Those ads were also pulled, although the CTA claimed the contract for those ads was nearing its end anyway. Huberman's spokeswoman pointed out that Huberman was not the president of the CTA at that time.

In late 2006, Boston Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/66894].


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[Gildedtongue]

Yes, because seeing an unshaven, angry looking Russian makes me want to hold up liquor stores...

 

[KefZ_X]

Yes, because seeing an unshaven, angry looking Russian makes me want to hold up liquor stores...

...and join a Communist group and march through Red Square.....but Seriously it seems to me that FOX news controls or influences alot more people then I thought. Just what do they have against Rockstar North?

 

[CodeChrono]

Fox News infuriates me to the point of no return. Especially after that Mass Effect crap they pulled.

What I want to see is somebody like CTA stand up for video games and keep the ads going. For goodness's sake! It's our First Amendment here! We have the freedom of expression! Ok, I know there are obvious restrictions, but good greif, this is overstretching terribly.

 

[Echolocating]

Don't contact your government representative to get ads pulled... call Fox News and make up some bullshit story about a violent weekend that was spurred by pictures on a bus.

Heck, you want to get the next president impeached? Leak a story about how they played Condemned... and liked it! Fox News would jump all over that shit and probably explain to the masses how the only way to advance in the game was to worship Satan while clubbing baby seals.

 

[Melaisis]

FOX is honestly turning into the new Jack.

Well at least Thompson was smart, in a small, dark-humoured kind of way.

This is just sensationalism for the sake of it.

 

[stompy]

Hey, it feeds the masses, and thus, survives. Though, it would be nice they let up, ya'know...

- A procrastinator