On Feb 6, 2007, at 2:00 AM, sparaig wrote:
--- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I missed this old column from the New
York Times in which technology writer
David Pogue takes Microsoft to task for
manipulating, and sometimes fabricating,
good reviews for its products. I post it
here because it ties into the TMO's efforts
to create good PR. It seems that no matter
how big and powerful one is, one still
craves legitimacy in the eyes of others,
even at the ultimage expense of
legitimacy upon getting caught.
It seems a bit of a stretch to go from the TMO generating PR to MS
bribing online bloggers
with laptops. Is MMY having all journalists learn TM or something?
There method is a bit different: they keep pelting media outlets and
research journals with their press releases and "research". The idea
is, if you do it long enough, eventually something has to "give". And
usually it does.
Of course it helps to have THP or MD to act as slave labor. There's
nothing better than a cult to get stuff like this done.
