[ale] A little show of force?

[Matthew Brown]

I'm in!

Sorry, was that two words?

I'm real in!

On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 17:57, Hogg, Russell E wrote:

    
    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] 
    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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