GM Cuts 'Suicide' Ad

Poor General Motors. After a miserable 2006 the company tried to kick off 2007 with a controversial Super Bowl ad that showed an assembly line robot offing himself after screwing up on the job.

But after complaints from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, GM agreed to edit the ad to remove the reference to the 'bot jumping off a bridge.

GM originally stood by its ad, but has decided that the bad PR wasn't worth it.

Per CNN:

Some ad critics suggested that GM's robot ad was insensitive and a bad idea for a company that offered buyouts and retirement packages to get about 35,000 factory workers to leave the company in the last year in an effort to stem losses.

Ya think? Now if the ad showed some GM execs feeling shamed for the company's billions in losses and (like happens too often in Japan) impaling themselves with a samurai sword, they might not have had any objections.

Source:CNN