On Thursday 28 December 2006 23:42 Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Microsoft's Laptop Giveaway Becoming PR Disaster?
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> | This thing is starting to feel like a PR disaster. Bloggers are
> | starting to smell blood and this thing very well may begin to
> | turn into yet another episode of bloggers gone wild.
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> http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/061228/23174_id.html?.v=1
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> Would you really expect a blogger to vent anger after receiving a gift...?
> Microsoft buys its friends, not earns them.
If you think about it Roy, this is all "a bit of a b****r" as we say around
here, isn't it?
Look at it this way. If you are a blogger, and write about MS and Vista in
particular:-
1. If you received one of these from them, and declare it, and say something
good about MS/Vista, you've shot yourself in the foot really - everybody is
thinking "He's been bribed".
2. If you received one, and declare it, and say not-so-good things,
everybody is thinking, "He's just trying to show us that bribery doesn't
work", or else "blimey! Think what he'd have said if he'd *not* been
bribed!"
3. If you received one, and *don't* declare it, and anybody finds out, you
are finished!
4. - and finally, if you did *not* get one, and say anything not-so-bad
about MS/Vista, everybody now says "He was bribed - they gave him one of
those laptops"!
Ye gods! It's a lose - lose - lose - lose situation!
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