That's Corporate America For You

It's yesterday afternoon. Boston is inexplicably on lockdown from the scourge of dangerous cartoon characters. So the ad manager working for Turner, in his or her infinite wisdom, saw this scene unfolding on television, knew that (s)he was ultimately responsible, and the immediate reaction was to keep everybody quiet.

One of the two men charged in connection with the advertising campaign that turned into a terror scare was asked to keep quiet as the stunt sent the city of Boston into chaos, according to two fellow artists who provided ABC News with an e-mail from the man supporting their claim [...]

In an e-mail obtained by ABC News sent from Berdovsky to Hoo at 1:26 p.m. Wednesday, the artist writes, "My boss at the Cartoon Network's ad agency just called — she is asking that I pretty please keep everything on the dl [down low; quiet]." The e-mail, supplied by Hoo, contains a large swath of blacked-out text that he claims contained personal information he'd rather not share.

No one at Interference Inc. answered the phone or responded to requests for comment on the authenticity of the e-mail.

(Interference was the company that hired the two artists who ended up getting arrested for working)

I knew that when push came to shove, Turner would just try to sever ties and act like it didn't happen.

Let me tell you about Turner. The one and only time I worked for them it took them four months to pay me. No exaggeration. Apparently they needed some certain paperwork, which was sitting on some desk in accounts payable for two weeks without letting anyone know they needed something additional. It's a big company that's known for having an awful relationship with their vendors, and so the fact that they would try to hush up the employees and create plausible deniability is wholly unsurprising.

Again, the fault lies with anyone dumb enough to look at a Mooninite and think terrorism, but Turner acted like scoundrels as well.