Re: MS Stealth Plan

[Charles Behney <charlesaugust@theriver.com>]

Here is a vintage example of a 'stealth campaign,' that shifts the blame
for pollution and littering away from the disposable packaging community
to the consumer.

Whenever you read an error warning about 'illegal operations' being
performed, think about how the blame has been shifted from the OS,  to
the consumer and programmers.

This type of PR is as old as the Boston Tea Party.

CAB

http://azstarnet.com/public/dnews/0416cv2.html


Tom Giago wrote:

> One of the things I learned from ``The Riverkeepers,'' involves a man
>       who passed himself off as an Indian for many, many years. He called
>       himself Iron Eyes Cody. He fooled everyone so well that his appearance
>       in a commercial as part of a series called ``America the Beautiful,''
>       extended his masquerade.
>
>       The commercials were part of a stealth campaign by a corporate front
>       group, America the Beautiful, of the aluminum and glass industry that was
>       able to use its nonprofit status to garner over $550 million in free airtime
>       at taxpayer expense. According to ``The Riverkeepers,'' the weeping
>       Indian ad was meant to shift the guilt about pollution from the bottling
>       industry to the consumer.
>
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