On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:12:20 +0000, Mark Kent wrote:
> Doug Mentohl <doug_mentohl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> On 10 Nov, 12:24, Kier <val...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>> On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:55:36 +0000, Mark Kent wrote:
>>
>>>> Doubtful. Microsoft's cola shilcosystem is surely paid for.
>>
>>> Have you any evidence for that? Frankly, the idea is ludicrous.
>>
>> Well, the people who run Big Brother were hiring on bloggers a while
>> back. I know this cause a friend of mine was hired on a while back.
>> You sat in on the group in shifts and tried to stear the conversation
>> off of unsound opinion. You had to pretend to be a regular joe, a bit
>> like what goes on here.
>>
>> I think the main problem with groups like COLA is that the media is
>> afraid their own journalists are going to pick up bad opinion,
>> especially as they have to monitor them all the time. Why I post here
>> and elsewhere is, in my own small way, to try and hold back the ever
>> rising tide of corporate bullshit. Here's how another lone voice
>> crying in the wilderness once put it:
>>
>> http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=90ELleCQvew
>>
>
> But in Kier's world, this kind of thing just doesn't happen.
Not nearly as often as you think, certainly.
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Kier
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