Coca-Cola, under fire for months for its sponsorship of the 2014
Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, may try and blunt criticism from LGBT
activists by running a Super Bowl ad "touting its commitment to diversity," writes Scott Wooledge at DailyKos:
A
reliable source provides some interesting news: In an effort to spin
their way past protests over their sponsorship of the Sochi Olympics in
Russia, Coca Cola has contracted to place an ad in the Superbowl
touting its commitment to diversity. Described as a Benetton's style
feel-good "we are the world" commercial, reliable sources say the media
purchase was only for the United States market.
Times and Wall Street Journal. Initially the
property of McDonald's the #CheersToSochi hashtag has been hijacked and
now also used against Coke and evolved into an all-purpose Olympic
sponsor protest tag.
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