{"id":4765,"date":"2007-02-09T15:14:15","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T15:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=4765"},"modified":"2007-02-09T15:14:15","modified_gmt":"2007-02-09T15:14:15","slug":"cartoon-network-boss-quits-over-mooninite-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2007\/02\/cartoon-network-boss-quits-over-mooninite-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon Network Boss Quits over Mooninite Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you happy now, Boston?<\/p>\n<p>10 other cities ran the exact same campaign and managed to not fear getting blown up.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"blocked\"><p> NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) &#8212; The head of Cartoon Network resigned Friday after the network&#8217;s guerilla marketing scheme for one of its shows went bad last week and led to a bomb scare in Boston &#8211; a fiasco that cost its parent company $2 million.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to employees, Jim Samples, the general manager and executive vice president of the network, wrote: &#8220;I deeply regret the negative publicity and expense caused to our company as a result of this campaign. As general manager of Cartoon Network, I feel compelled to step down, effective immediately, in recognition of the gravity of the situation that occurred under my watch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2007\/02\/09\/news\/newsmakers\/cartoon_network\/index.htm?cnn=yes\" class=\"external external_icon\">Turner Broadcasting System and Interference Inc. agreed to pay $2 million to make amends for last Wednesday&#8217;s bomb scare in Boston<\/a>, the Massachusetts attorney general said Monday. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How it all started:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/mt-archives\/005814.php\">Boston Police should watch more Adult Swim<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/ohnotheydidnt\/10765699.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">ONTD<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you happy now, Boston? 10 other cities ran the exact same campaign and managed to not fear getting blown up. NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) &#8212; The head of Cartoon Network resigned Friday after the network&#8217;s guerilla marketing scheme for one of its shows went bad last week and led to a bomb scare in Boston [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-4765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}