at a discount, approximately cost.
Esther
At 12:39 PM 06/02/99 -0500, Gordon Cook wrote:
>Esther, Is ogilvy doing this for free? For a discount or at its regular
>rates? how much *ARE* you pasying them for their slippery sleight of hand.
>
>Here in their own words from their own web site is their methodology for
>helping outfits like ICANN, outfits in trouble with alienated publics,
>doctor their "images". Not change mind you....NOT serve their publics, but
>serve THEMSELVES and whatever secret agendas they are pursuing.
>
>This is the normal PR approach to putting a friendly face on a dictator or
>a carcinogen.
>
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>NOTE: Contempt in which ICANN PRES. MIKE ROBERTS holds rest of Internet:
>"Some of those people think the management [ICANN] should check with the
>public [the Communities of the Internet] every time they make a decision,
>which is crazy," Roberts said. "That's flat-out crazy." WIRED NEWS 2/4/99
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