Cartoon Network general manager resigned · 2007-02-10 13:10
The general manager of the Cartoon Network, under fire for approving a marketing campaign that sparked a bomb scare in the Boston area last week, abruptly resigned yesterday, surprising local officials.
Jim Samples, 44, sent an e-mail to colleagues announcing his resignation after six years of leading the network and 13 at Turner Broadcasting System, the network’s parent company.
”I deeply regret the negative publicity and expense caused to our company as a result of this campaign,” Samples wrote. “As General Manager of Cartoon Network, I feel compelled to step down, effective immediately, in recognition of the gravity of the situation that occurred under my watch.”
Mayor Thomas M. Menino, who had denounced the Cartoon Network’s marketing campaign last week as “all about corporate greed,” said he did not push for Samples’s resignation, but was pleased to hear of it, Boston Globe reports.
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