Americablog via The Road To Surfdom has this graphic on its site — an ad running for ABC in Australia:
Read our previous posts chain linked to this post.
More than ever it appears that we are witnessing a rarity: apart from the controversial political aspects of this film, we are seeing the virtual destruction of corporate images that took literally years (people working overtime, people doing p.r., millions in advertising) to build. You almost have to feel overwhelming GRIEF for the since-departed people and legendary media figures who put their lives into building these companies and creating across-the-board public support. This is now becoming even more of a PR STORY and it’s hard to see how the corporate images or corporate bottom lines (more income from attracting MORE customers) are going to come out of this intact.
“The Story of Exactly What Happened?” This is the most damning ad we have seen so far. There is almost nothing more to say (but we’ll try somehow in future posts..).
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.