Pink Faces at Financial Times as It Pulls Amnesty's Crowd-Funded Anti-Shell Ad

This is the ad that Amnesty funded via social media last month. And this is the newspaper that turned it down. The Financial Times waited until "the last possible moment" to pull the full-page ad, according to Amnesty's UK blog, and the NGO's campaigns director, Tim Hancock is not a happy man. "We gave them written reassurances that we would take full responsibility for the comments and opinion stated in the advertisement," he said.

All publicity, it has to be said, is good publicity, but...