Ads pulled after poster boy's racist tweets uncovered

Morning Report

English - October 16, 2019 18:10 - 3 minutes - 3.73 MB - ★★★★ - 11 ratings
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Wellington's Regional Council scrambled to remove ads promoting a career in bus driving after it discovered a string of racist tweets by one of its poster boys. The ads, which cost more than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, were posted online, in newspapers and on buses and billboards around the capital. Katie Scotcher has the story.