> http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/update/story.jsp?story=79745
>
> "If you don't have any facts, why waste valuable time asking for them?
> Just skim a few articles and then dream up whatever sounds right!"
> JMR
This is a PR job. Facts are irrelevant. Positioning and perception are
not.
If this were traced back you would most likely find it came from one of the
PR houses around the traps and the Journalist has just put his name to it.
IF it is not under a house name.
Newspapers are generally short staffed and journalists have little time to
go out diggin' for facts so they tend to grab the PR crap churned out by
lobby groups and 'Public Affairs' front companies owned out by government
depts. and special interests. We have the same here. Companies that
regularly do nothing but churn out 'press releases' or articles for
publication and anyone who gets up their vested interest nose gets a real
shit rundown in the 'press'.
e.g. Right now it is winter and every winter the drug companies go on a big
push to sell lots a vaccines so there is a PR scare being generated right
now. "Oh...There is a 'new' flu epidemic coming... coming? "Yes it is in
New Zealand right now but sure as onions are onions it will be here in
Aussie soon! Everyone in Australia should get vaccinated now! This gets put
out as news. Talk about free advertising. People I have observed vaccinated
with the crap get flu immediately. In June each year the same 'News
Releases' are churned out.
So if someone somewhere with some influence does not like the fact that
e-gold and Goldmoney are starting to inch into their business with a better
product you can expect some little articles about e-gold being 'not quite
right' to come out first. Nothing hard, just a soft perception change or
seed of doubt thrown down. Then after a while something a bit stronger. A
questioning of the ethics of e-gold and its proponents. This is followed by
questions. Questions, after all are not accusations. So you can ask all
sorts of nasty questions in all innocence. "How do we know they are
honest?". "Can we be really sure". "Is this money laundering?". Real
positioning stuff.. Then 60 minutes or one of the daily public affairs
programs that gives out PR releases as news will do a 'sudden 'expose' and
find and expose some poor bastard who has been allegedly 'done over' by
e-gold or a Market Maker. will consist of emotive statements and a scarcity
of fact. There will be a call for restrictions to 'protect the innocent'.
Soon everyone will 'know' that e-gold is a scam and more rights will have
been eroded.
So don't expect accuracy or honesty and don't expect the big boys to come
along and say. "Hey ya doin' a swell job fellows!", 'cos they won't.
Kind regards,
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http://www.gold-today.com
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