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Microsoft's new PR blitz uses press like sock puppets

Posted by VISITOR on Nov 10, 2005 11:58 PM EST · 5 comments
the Inquirer; By Charlie Demerjian

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IS ANYONE GETTING SICK of the new Microsoft stealth PR campaign? More importantly, is anyone getting sick of how the media is lapping it up without question? I sure am. To make matters worse, it is so effective that the spinners are using it more often with each passing week.

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Comments (5)

ubuntu4all · Nov 10, 2005 6:50 AM EST

[Steve, chair down. DOWN.] ......lol... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/10/gates_ozzie_memos/

tuxchick · Nov 11, 2005 10:09 AM EST

These goobers are so transparent. To everyone but the "tech" "press", I guess.

tadelste · Nov 11, 2005 11:15 AM EST

What tech press was that?

bdumm · Nov 11, 2005 12:19 PM EST

wait?

there is tech press?

someone forget to tell me something? :)

tadelste · Nov 11, 2005 12:35 PM EST

That's the point. If they don't tell you something, no tech press exists. It's advertising, silly.

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