And you thought the fat ad was offensive

Tim Burrowes

May 21, 2009 10:07

In the unlikely event that the disease does become a far more serious proposition than the same old influenza that sweeps through our community ever single year, these billboards of ours are going to look really, really ill-advised.

The Chaser’s Dom Knight on their ‘pandemic alert’ billboards

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.