MoveOn At FOX HQ: "Talk About A Publicity Stunt Gone Bad"

Cablenewser ^ | 07/19/04 | Cablenewser

[Pikamax]

MoveOn At FOX HQ: "Talk About A Publicity Stunt Gone Bad" > UPDATE: One press person who watched the "parade" said 20 to 25 MoveOn.org members were on hand. About 15 reporters were present, including camera crews from local TV stations and correspondents for the cable trade publications... MoveOn.org handed out "Outfoxed" DVD's outside FOX's NYC headquarters today, and unveiled their FTC petition. But: "Talk about a publicity stunt gone bad," a FOX employee writes to CableNewser. "Maybe it was the wet, drizzly weather, but for all of MoveOn's attempt at bravado, they failed miserably." Apparently only a handful of MoveOn members were on hand. "It was a pretty ominous sign to see one of the event organizers nervously surveying the landscape of no-shows and quickly folding up a MoveOn.org banner within minutes of arriving," the staffer says. "And then to watch them repeatedly try to scotch tape their 'petition' to a wet window was even worse. The staffers were trying to peddle DVD's to literally anyone who walked out of the building (which houses numerous other companies) and most people just kept walking and didn't even look at them -- the MoveOn people literally looked like those guys who stand on every street corner in Manhattan trying to peddle discount coupons to strip clubs." 1:45:20 PM

[blanknoone]

The funny thing is that the FTC will quickly disregard this complaint, then FOX can run with, 'Fair and Balanced, as approved by the FTC'

I hope they have the testicular fortitude to do it...

[kcvl]

No, since most of the "employees" who are responsible for the propaganda are probably working for one of them or, at least, support them.

It's tough to win by playing fair, which we continue to do by telling the truth, when the supposedly referee is also playing on the opponent's team. Then they complain about a fair and balanced report of the truth. They don't dispute the facts they just complain about the vehicle in which the facts are disseminated.

[NativeNewYorker]

Pretty much everyone I know, INCLUDING ME, is getting out of town for that week.

That last week of August is usually the emptiest week of the year here anyway.

As for street-level businesses protecting themselves, after a few years of (literally) annually scheduled riots (the PR parade), folks here are pretty used to this, hard as that may seem to believe. And the police - especially under Bloomberg - have gotten very very good at controlling crowds. Given what NYPD pays for overtime, they never have trouble getting enough cops out.

So, given the baseline level of weirdness and random hassle NYers are used to, this is not wildly outside our bounds.

[RippleFire]

bump

[kendu]

I am here on 46th and 6th, took a while to get home yesterday, bomb scare in Hoboken, normally my trip takes 2 hours to get home took 3.5. Nothing is going to stop me from providing for my family. Do all these protestors have jobs?
do they realize they are literally damaging the economy by not going to work and producing? F em all, get in my way, you may get a pen in the neck !