Comments on: WTF? Why is Isaac Asimov’s face being used to shill in a Huffington Post ad? http://www.scottedelman.com/2013/02/09/wtf-why-is-isaac-asimovs-face-being-used-to-shill-in-a-huffington-post-ad/ Writer and Editor Sat, 18 May 2013 20:24:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Scott http://www.scottedelman.com/2013/02/09/wtf-why-is-isaac-asimovs-face-being-used-to-shill-in-a-huffington-post-ad/#comment-12961 Scott Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:48:31 +0000 http://www.scottedelman.com/?p=9418#comment-12961 Thanks for pointing that out! I should have caught that.

]]> By: msbpodcast http://www.scottedelman.com/2013/02/09/wtf-why-is-isaac-asimovs-face-being-used-to-shill-in-a-huffington-post-ad/#comment-12960 msbpodcast Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:12:21 +0000 http://www.scottedelman.com/?p=9418#comment-12960 They grabbed/ripped-off a .JPG from a site somewhere and nobody ever objected before (that we know of.)

Its nothing personal, its just SPAM and the thieving mentality of spammers.

Whatever schlock they’re peddling is probably of the same quality as well.

]]> By: Andrew Denny http://www.scottedelman.com/2013/02/09/wtf-why-is-isaac-asimovs-face-being-used-to-shill-in-a-huffington-post-ad/#comment-12952 Andrew Denny Sun, 10 Feb 2013 08:58:39 +0000 http://www.scottedelman.com/?p=9418#comment-12952 I suspect that’s a syndicated ad which is not controlled by either Huffington or the advertiser. We are getting plagued by all these “Mom of 57 shows new wrinkle-removing tricks, doctors hate her” syndicated ads which pop up in ostensibly reputable sites. The fact that it’s a Asimov pic is probably irrelevant – they just wanted a face pic that was easily available.

]]> By: Sheri L. Williamson http://www.scottedelman.com/2013/02/09/wtf-why-is-isaac-asimovs-face-being-used-to-shill-in-a-huffington-post-ad/#comment-12948 Sheri L. Williamson Sun, 10 Feb 2013 05:40:36 +0000 http://www.scottedelman.com/?p=9418#comment-12948 Not just Asimov’s well-known face but cropped from a well-known portrait by Rowena Morrill. The artist might also like to pursue it.

]]> By: Not Sure http://www.scottedelman.com/2013/02/09/wtf-why-is-isaac-asimovs-face-being-used-to-shill-in-a-huffington-post-ad/#comment-12946 Not Sure Sun, 10 Feb 2013 02:34:37 +0000 http://www.scottedelman.com/?p=9418#comment-12946 This is why I use Ad Block Plus, in spite of whining by bloggers that I’m depriving them of revenue. The man’s been dead for, what, 20 years? I guess that’s long enough for scammy Internet ad people to use his image and figure most people won’t recognize him as anything other than a professorial type from central casting. They don’t care about anything other than click-throughs, and Huffington Post probably doesn’t care, either.

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