Posted on 01/28/2006 12:03:26 AM PST by WaterDragon
It was supposed to eradicate grumpiness from Germany. Instead, the "Du Bist Deutschland" ad campaign flopped -- and the campaign's leaders became the global blogosphere's favorite whipping boy.
Du Bist Deutschland was the top Technorati search in the world last week. Zoom Du Bist Deutschland was the top Technorati search in the world last week. The idea seemed like a good one: an ad campaign to buck up the German spirit and remind the depressive citizens of Europe's largest (but struggling) economy that things really aren't all that bad. Ad agencies, newspapers and a number of celebrities donated some €30 million-worth of advertising space to the nonprofit Du Bist Deutschland campaign launched last September. Ads appeared on billboards and television, in German magazines and movie theaters, and they featured pictures of the German great and good.
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My thought exactly. Germany has their "Toilet Wall Bloggers". We have the Pajamahadeen.
"Portraying Einstein as a paragon of German national culture should offend all people," wrote Rabbi Brad Hirschfeld in the Jewish magazine Forward. "Were it not for the safe haven that Einstein found in the United States, he, like most of Europe's Jews, would likely have been murdered in the German-led Holocaust."
Exactly - It seems von Matt was so arrogant he thought he could manipulate German public opinion, and re-write history, on the blogosphere. Oblivious to the new media he then lashes out at the writers:
"the toilet walls of the Internet.... What on earth gives every computer owner the right to exude his opinion, unasked-for?..."
Sounds like our friends in the MSM.
"Less than a year ago, a statistic made the rounds that Iran had more blogs (65,000) than Germany (42,000)"
I live in Germany and I am depressed...oh...that's because I had to quit drinking Hefe Weisen!
German Men Told They Can No Longer Stand and Deliver (Stehpinkeln verboten!)
PajamahEdeen if you please
I'll be Hitler's ad campaign did not include a picture of Einstein.
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