What's the difference between what people, or things created by people,say and what they mean? Why is that difference often so great? This blog about media,the psychology of consumer behaviour, visual communications,and the strange cultural history of advertising will investigate what things say and what they mean and what that says about the strange strange world that is us.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
New Zealand News Website Stuff- Employees be warned!
Watch out reporters at Stuff, the New Zealand news and entertainment website. Break the news first or it's over the balcony with you!
In a stunt to garner word of mouth, a reporter was pushed over a balcony and hung by his feet as a banner unrolled with the words, "If our team don't break stories first, there are consequences."
Of course it was as stuntman and not a reporter, and people gathered around to snap photos.
In another stunt Stuff pinned one of its reporters to a billboard and supplied rotten tomatoes for passers-by to throw at the poor reporter.
Let's just hope some of the desperate shrinking newspapers don't get ideas and go all copycat.
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