[ale] A little show of force?

[James P. Kinney III]

Depending on what section and where, it's around $20,000-$35,000. Even
split between 100 ALE'ers, it's out of our reach. 

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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