--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > If the Movement didn't want to mislead people they could have > called it a scientific "grant" in the first paragraph instead of > qualifying it 1,000 words later (by the way, a 2,500 word text is > about 11 pages single-spaced...whoever heard of a press release -- > at least a successful press release anyway! -- being more than a > few paragraphs or, at most, a page in length? My God, this is a > diatribe, NOT a press release!)
Most of the news stories I read cited the fact that it was to be used for his research, so apparently reporters aren't as lazy as you are. > Just the fact that the movement had to qualify what is was that > Nader actually "received" by saying that the money was to > be "deposited in a bank" -- where else was he going to keep > it...under his mattress -- suggests some sneaky wording and > shenanigans going on. Uh, no, it doesn't. This was all quite straightforward as far as the transfer of money was concerned. The point wasn't bank vs. mattress; it was that the money wasn't for his personal use. > Sorry, Judy, it was a horrible "publicity stunt" and one that was > not successful at all. As I said, it was extremely successful, got all kinds of coverage at the time. It did just what publicity stunts are supposed to do: enticed reporters to attend in order to hear the spiel, in the hope that some of them will reproduce some of it in their news stories, which they did. The TM folks got to talk about the scientific research on TM, including Nader's, and just generally pitch TM and its theories as a formula for fixing the world. It was certainly no worse than other TM publicity stunts, like the Yogic Olympics it used to hold for the same reason, to get reporters in a room to listen to a spiel by putting on a splashy event. The spiel *itself* is weird, but that's another story altogether. Then your argument is with TM for having such a spiel in the first place, not for holding publicity stunts to promote the spiel. That's what publicity stunts *do*, promote spiels. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
