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The HUGE marketing mistake that Turner Broadcasting made in Boston today?

Nobody thinks this was newsworthy enough for a station to have covered it?

I'd have thought a few people would've mentioned something about it?
 
KISS did. I was listening tonight and the jock Jackson Blue made some joke about how Cartoon Network was Boston's new favorite channel or something. Filled with sarcasm. Just enough to send the point home and was very funny. I didn't hear anybody else mention it but I'm sure they did!
 
Howie Carr only spent all four hours talking about it, and I think all of Sullivan's show (and the first three
hours of Leveille's show) have been devoted to it as well. Carr appeared on CNN's Anderson Cooper show.
 
Neanderpaul said:
The HUGE marketing mistake that Turner Broadcasting made in Boston today?

Nobody thinks this was newsworthy enough for a station to have covered it?

I'd have thought a few people would've mentioned something about it?
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I am sure it will be topic #1 on all AM drive shows today.
And O&A will probably blame Mumbles for overreacting again.
 
This story got quite a bit of coverage on Thursday's EARLY TODAY television show.

argytunes
 
Neanderpaul said:
The HUGE marketing mistake that Turner Broadcasting made in Boston today?
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Mistake? From the POV of Time-Warner and most people under 30, hardly. It was probably not thought through enough, but it was a rousing success because it accomplished its objective: get people talking about Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Viral marketing at its best.

OTOH, I would wager that most people over 30 didn't find it funny or effective, those are the people who make the laws, and it's exactly this sort of perceived abuse which tends to bring about regulation from government.

Two of the people who placed the devices (and video-recorded themselves doing so) around the city have been arrested.
 
I'm sure someone who couldn't get to their dialysis appointment because of the traffic tie-ups thought it
was really funny.
 
Raccoon, the culprits (Big Business) don't care about people and their health needs. They only care about the bottom line. Think QUIZ SHOW where the head of NBC (played by the lawyer for Demi Moore in DISCLOSURE) gets off scott free, just as the drug company head does, and they villify Van Doren

First thought about this was that it was some activist group trying to show how vulnerable we are.

Second thought about this is HOW VULNERABLE WE ARE

Third thought about this is that they should file criminal charges on the major players who benefit from this, along with the lackeys who did the bumbling, fumbling and stumbling that tied our city up.
 
Point is if Howie spent four hours talking about it then it was not a mistake then was it?. Sure it caused concern, not even a small panic but it did what guerilla marketing campaigns do:

IT GOT EVERYONE TALKING and that has to translate into viewership.

Than again it does show how completely useless 'homeland security" is if someone can just drop several fairly conspicuous packages around the city where the 911 plot eminated from!.
 
Yes it does show our vulnerability, etc., and we can only hope that next time it isn't a real bomb. I don't
know whether to blame the corporate bigwigs who wanted the guerilla marketing campaign or the art
students who wanted to make a few extra bucks and didn't think that putting such devices around could
cause a panic. I don't think the Turner bigwigs will really get punished (and btw some people are blaming
Ted or even Hanoi Jane for this but I think Turner left the company that still bears his name, right?)
 
Oh, it was a CARTOON character? Don't worry, we've got it handled.
Next week, we'll see if we can tell the difference between our butts and a hole in the ground.

Signed,
The Mayor's Office
 
It's all over the TV news.

The downside of radio news is you don't get to see the mugs of the two stoner hippie retards that they arrested. It's obvious why the suits at Turner chose these two clowns to put up the "art." ;D

Harmless or not, you can't just go hanging suspicious packages off of a bridge. Better safe than sorry.
 
Infidel said:
It's all over the TV news.

The downside of radio news is you don't get to see the mugs of the two stoner hippie retards that they arrested. It's obvious why the suits at Turner chose these two clowns to put up the "art." ;D

Harmless or not, you can't just go hanging suspicious packages off of a bridge. Better safe than sorry.
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dudes aren't stoners... nor hippies.. one of my buddies knows them.
 
I think Howie's more making fun of the people who watch that cartoon show, though when you hear the
"let's talk about haircuts" press conference, you might think they're stoners/hippies. Maybe the new Air
America owner will hire those guys (if they don't wind up in jail) to be the new morning team. (Hey,
it worked for Finneran...)
 
Could these "artists" have called in these threats to the police to get attention? Why were these things up for weeks without people noticing; and then suddenly 10s were found?
 
Smoke said:
Could these "artists" have called in these threats to the police to get attention? Why were these things up for weeks without people noticing; and then suddenly 10s were found?
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This morning Todd Feinburg was saying that yesterday they also found two fake pipe bombs - it took a while to identify them as fake, so during the time they were investigating them, it fed into the concern about the lighted things put up by Turner. I didn't hear all of it, but this may be why Boston was up in arms about it.

Re the guys who put the stuff up - having had a number of not so great temp jobs at various times in my youth, if I had been hired by Turner Broadcasting to hang a bunch of things from bridges, it very well may not have occurred to me that it hadn't been cleared properly....
 
<<anyone see the two guys' press conference? Brilliant bit of performance art.>>

They were 2 of the biggest morons I've seen in years! :mad:
 
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