THIS is selling out

The SI cover this week.
I was appalled.
The ENTIRE cover was a DirecTV ad, made to look like an SI cover. Really, there's 5 cover pages this week; 4 are DirecTV ads featuring NFL QBs, and one (on the inside a couple pages) is real.
That's just embarrassing, and I shudder to think of how newspaper execs will now think larger ads on their covers are now more accepted.
Ugh.

 

Meh. It's a wrap. Just rip it off if you don't like it. Anything goes at this point. My paper had had partial wrap ads on 1A, front page strip ads, ads in the mast ... Gotta pay the bills.

DirecTV's 'Don't Be Like This' Push Wraps Sports Illustrated in Freakish Versions of NFL QBs

 

This is selling out.

 

So is this.