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Sorry if this is a dupe, but I just got a "free, please subscribe" Rolling Stone in the mail and that article may just persuade me to subscribe. (I haven't had a subscription to RS since the 80's). Issue bonus: Green Day on cover and good article about them.
Anyway :thumbsup: :thumbsup: on the Sinclair article, highly recommended reading. It talks about Stolen Honor and the boycott of advertisers. Quote from article about CEO Smith and VP Hyman's take on the whole thing:
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"Fox proved one thing: People like controversy," Smith says. "I'd do one of those Stolen Honor specials every month if we could. The lesson was .....we can do this kind of content, pre-empt the networks and make more money."
Hyman agrees with his boss. The controversy "was worth $10 million in free advertising," he says. "People who'd never heard of us before suddenly knew who were...."
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Yeah people know you are GOP asshats.:puke:
Article by Eric Klinenberg- Rolling Stone, Issue 968, Feb 24, 2005.
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