What's in the news this week:
- claims of bias in an Olympic decision
- a senator and potential ethics violations
- a celebrity admits workplace dalliances and a resulting extortion case
- unemployment rate nears 10 percent
- Iran agrees to send its enriched uranium to another superpower
What can you add to the list via comments?
Saturday, October 3, 2009
KC News Meeting
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The issue with director and apparent fugitive Roman Polanski might be something to think about.
Also, today on Twitter Perez Hilton kept posting about T-Mobile being a horrible phone company because his Sidekick wasn't working. Apparently T-Mobile is having a network-wide problem with this...and unfortunately for them it is today's #1 trending topic..obviously because of Hilton. He even posed the question himself-how is T-Mobile going to respond to this failure and bad press?
It's about freakin time...
The Madoff family is to be sued for $199 million dollars.
Bernard Madoff's two sons and other relatives were sued Friday for nearly $200 million for allegedly lining their pockets with money stolen from investors victimized in Wall Street's biggest Ponzi scheme.
Goes into detail about what his kids did to use this money, that of course was not their own.
http://www.newsday.com/business/suit-seeks-200m-from-madoff-relatives-1.1495423
I found this article in the news this week: http://adage.com/article?article_id=139423
Toyota and their ad agency, "Saatchi & Saatchi Los Angeles" are being sued for a recent marketing campaign that used terror and fear to promote the Toyota Matrix. The article quotes the prosecuter's attorney saying, "laws lag technology. 'The technology comes first and morality and guidelines seem to follow.'" This remains consistent with the ongoing debate of online/social media ethics.
We've talked about how the internet and social media have changed journalism and marketing - but Toyota takes this a step too far in their efforts to attract attention for the matrix. Why would Toyota risk utilizing such an emotionally disturbing marketing effort? Will this generate anything but negative media for them?
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