[ale] A little show of force?

[Hogg, Russell E]

Hmmm...


How much does a one page one time add in the AJC cost...
Split across a hundred members of a mailing list..


Probably still steep..






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-----Original Message-----
From: F. Grant Robertson [mailto:f.g.robertson at alexiongroup.com] 
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 1:18 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] A little show of force?


Something, anything..  Please dear god in heaven. Anything to wake up
anyone in media. I don't know if a show is the idea, but couldn't we all
start writing letters to local stations demanding that they at least
present the whole picture when talking about viruses? 


I just watched a 5 minute segment on Fox 5 news about SoBig. In 5
minutes, not _one_ _single_ _solitary_ _mention_ of the fact that only
Microsoft systems are vulnerable, no mention of business who use macs or
linux being immune.. nothing. They didn't even use the *word* microsoft
in the report. I really didn't think it was possible to do 5 minutes on
it without using the word Microsoft, but they managed.


I am consistently amazed at this. If *anything* else caused such massive
disruption, the media would stand on it like a soapbox. Crikey, they
even did most of the report from the VA hospital, not a single mention
of the wasted tax dollars in productivity or IT overtime. I'm so fed up
with this, and I know many of you are too.. what are we going to do
about it?  


Sigh, Linux needs a massive PR machine. 
-G




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