Doug Mentohl <doug_mentohl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> On 10 Nov, 12:24, Kier <val...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> 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.
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