On 11 Mar 2004 at 22:47, Robert Paul wrote:
> http://home.no.net/torgfje/utopos/chess.html
>
> Can this diagram be right?
>
> Robert Paul
> The Reed Institute
By way of response, I post the communcation as per PS received from
phatic.
Best,
tor
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All PR is good PR, I guess.
Or, as Tig Tillinghast puts it in his web coloumn
(http://www.marketingprofs.com/2/tillinghast9.asp):
> Dear Tig, Do you agree with this statement: =93All publicity is good
> publicity.=94 It confuses me!
>
> Thanks, Curious
>
> Dear Curious,
>
> It probably confuses you because its truth does not always apply to
> the marketing industry. The expression is variously attributed, but
> very likely had its origin in the early Hollywood or New York City
> entertainment industry publicists.
>
> In the celebrity-marketing context, public foibles, gaffes, even
> crimes can generate a complex sense of humanity and sympathy from the
> public. The key for these fame-seeking actors is to get famous, not to
> become famous for a particular quality.
[...]
> There are die-hard publicists out there who would argue differently --
> that once the listeria outbreak calms down, people will remember the
> brand name and forget the bouts of excruciating stomach pain, nausea
> and diarrhea.
[...]
> If your company markets specifically to nincompoops, and the brand is
> already so tarnished as to have little worth, the old adage may have some
> weight.
[...]
> Tig Tillinghast
On behalf of Utopos' sports&leisure pages I hereby resign as official
graphic representer of things chess. May the language of competence
find a symbolic utterance!
Yours, etcetc.
phatic
editor
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Torgeir Fjeld
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