{"id":710,"date":"2004-11-19T00:24:32","date_gmt":"2004-11-19T05:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=710"},"modified":"2005-04-13T13:15:03","modified_gmt":"2005-04-13T18:15:03","slug":"gupta_engulfed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/19\/gupta_engulfed\/","title":{"rendered":"Gupta Engulfed in Romance With Viewer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/yourcommand\/\" target=\"new\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/cnnGupta100x188.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"188\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\"><\/a>CNN\nis running a  new series of humorous ads, one of which features medical\ncorrespondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta unintentionally distracting a female viewer.\n<\/p>\n\n<p>In light of the  recent brouhaha surrounding  Terrell Owens&#8217; skit on ABC&#8217;s &quot;Monday\nNight Football,&quot;\nthis inter-racial coupling is sure to ruffle some feathers. The sexually-charged\ntone of the ad alone should raise the ire of FCC dick-tator Michael Powell. Fallout will soon commence.<\/p>\n\n<p>Is this my lame attempt at creating controversy where none exists? Is the\ntitle of this post outrageously misleading? The answer to both questions: yes\n(head pointed downward in dirty, dirty shame).<\/p>\n\n<p>One thing&#8217;s for sure &#8212; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mahootmedia.com\/archives\/000387.php\" target=\"new\">pro-Sanjays\nlobby over at Mahoot<\/a> will be quite pleased.<\/p>\n\n<p>The page that hosts the ad uses one of those unfriendly Flash interfaces,\nso there isn&#8217;t a direct link to the video. You&#8217;ll have to skip past the intro,\nand then possibly click around a bit. Also,  Anderson Cooper&#8217;s ad includes a\nbrief mention of India. <\/p>\n\n<p>CNN: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/yourcommand\/\" target=\"new\">Lou\nDobbs and Dr. Sanjay Gupta TV Ad<\/a><\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN is running a new series of humorous ads, one of which features medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta unintentionally distracting a female viewer. In light of the recent brouhaha surrounding Terrell Owens&#8217; skit on ABC&#8217;s &quot;Monday Night Football,&quot; this inter-racial &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/19\/gupta_engulfed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}