What the heck? Ad featuring Florence Griffith Joyner – who has been dead since 1998 – appears in Wall Street Journal
by LetsRun.com
April 25, 2016
In the print edition of today’s Wall Street Journal, we were shocked to find this ad in the paper:
The caption on the far right says “Florence Griffith Joyner (“Flo-Jo”) celebrating her victory
The ad for Chinese multinational networking and telecommunications equipment and services company Huawei uses a painted version of Joyner, who died in 1998, and it left our head spinning. So many questions.
1) Why would a company want to use a picture of a person whom many believe was on drugs in their ad?
2) What the hell is the point of the ad?
3) Why do you have an ad with no product or website to visit? If you scan the QPR code on the the website, it takes you to the Chinese version of the website? Why would a company spend multi thousands of dollars in an American paper to send you to the Chinese language version of the website? The English version doesn’t explain a whole lot.
Please give us your thoughts on our messageboard / fan forum here: MB: WTF: Did anyone else see the ad in the WSJ today featuring Flo-Jo? What the hell does it mean?