When I am King, they will be first against the wall.
My girlfriend works in PR. I tread lightly.
1.) Flagstaff, Arizona politicians propose Proposition 100, which would ban stores of certain sizes from being built within city limits (effectively prohibiting Wal-Mart super centers.)
2.) Wal-Mart hires political PR firm to sway voters.
3.) PR firm takes out full page ad in local newspaper linking ordinance laws with Nazi hate crimes. Picture is of a 1933 Berlin book burning.
4.) My head explodes.
5.) Wal-Mart initially takes stance of plausible deniability, leaving PR firm to take heat.
6.) Anti-Defamation League brings both da Noise and da Funk.
7.) Wal-Mart owns up to its bullshit, acknowledges they approved ad. Issues half-hearted apology.
8.) Everybody keeps their jobs.
9.) I continue to wonder why corporate and political information needs to be channeled through public relations.
10.) Nobody listens to me.
11.) America takes another turn for the worse.
My girlfriend works in PR. I tread lightly.
1.) Flagstaff, Arizona politicians propose Proposition 100, which would ban stores of certain sizes from being built within city limits (effectively prohibiting Wal-Mart super centers.)
2.) Wal-Mart hires political PR firm to sway voters.
3.) PR firm takes out full page ad in local newspaper linking ordinance laws with Nazi hate crimes. Picture is of a 1933 Berlin book burning.
4.) My head explodes.
5.) Wal-Mart initially takes stance of plausible deniability, leaving PR firm to take heat.
6.) Anti-Defamation League brings both da Noise and da Funk.
7.) Wal-Mart owns up to its bullshit, acknowledges they approved ad. Issues half-hearted apology.
8.) Everybody keeps their jobs.
9.) I continue to wonder why corporate and political information needs to be channeled through public relations.
10.) Nobody listens to me.
11.) America takes another turn for the worse.
6 Comments:
"when they came for walmart, i was silent, because i do not shop at walmart and i want them to go out of business."
or something like that.
i would like to work the phrase "the pyrrhic third reich principle" into this comment somehow.
the ickiness of alluding to nazis aside, we can still find plenty of offensive stuff here. like talking about constitutionally guaranteed rights and local ordinances in the same breath.
anyway. you can't be king, because i'm planning to be queen. but you can be prime minister, and do all the law passing. i'm mainly after the hats and matching purses, anyway. and the fawning.
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tuckova, at 5:21 AM
The Hell with King, Queen, PM, President... I will be sith lord and rule the world as emperor.
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Ian, at 8:27 AM
Not that I am advocating this at all, but PR Firms don't take out Ads, so don't think blaming the PR firm on the Ad is valid. In fact, at the bottom of the ad it reads, "Paid for by Protect Flagstaff's Future-Major Funding by Wal-Mart (Bentonville, AR)."
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Princess_Sarah, at 8:45 AM
Yes, any political ad must have a paid for ad. I'm not sure where issue ads fall in terms of those wacky initiative / referendum since we don't have many of those insane things out here. But in most cases, running a political ad without a paid for can lead to large fines, jail time in some instances, and lawsuits.
That said, denying responsibility for an ad is stupid because ultimately its all going to come back to you and you'll then also be caught lying on top of the fall out from the ad.
Of course, in the end, negative advertising is just more fun then positive campaigns.
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Ian, at 9:50 AM
hooray for using Radiohead lyrics as post titles!
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paper boats, at 9:24 PM
Radiohead stole it from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, which is what "Paranoid Android" is about.
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Shawn, at 11:34 PM
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