Re: Elizabeth Corcoran on MS Stealth PR

[Paul Rickard <msbc@abctec.com>]

Mitch Stone wrote:
> 
> One wonders why Microsoft feels the need to "plant" favorable articles,
> when they already get the soft cushion treatment from the press
> (presumably, for free).

	It's not exactly free... If Ms didn't spend a couple hundred million
per year on advertisements in magazines, on television, on web sites
and, in some cases, billboards, I doubt there would be quite so many
favorable articles about them in the mainstream media. One has to wonder
how many anti-Microsoft stories have been killed or edited to death just
to keep the (in many cases) biggest advertiser happy.
	Anybody else notice how CBS News did a story about how the "Microsoft
Millionares" have benefited this country just two days after BillG
appeared on the CBS morning show? Maybe Mr. Gates' wallet fell open...

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