As many know I go through a-lot of newswires, many of them do not
make it to the list of those I consider worthy of evdl bandwidth use.
Of those laying on the cutting room floor, as-it-were, I see many
news pieces that are so similar that they have to be contrived, and
leads me to believe they were asked for by a sponsor and or an
advertiser.
Example:
http://www.vcstar.com/news/2011/feb/19/living-with-an-electric-car-in-ventura-countythe/
Living with an electric car in Ventura County...the first month
You can read it for yourself, but my focus of this post ...
OK, the title might look interesting, but it is a promotional piece
about GM's pish. There are a lot of these. The city and author names
change, but the wording, story-line intent, and ending summary are
the similar: yes, you should buy one.
If they were truly a unique write up, there should be a mix of pro,
con, and everything in-between.
>From all across the U.S., I find these Easter-egg GM pish stories.
Perhaps a local reading only local media stories would find these
stories interesting. But since all these copycat story lines are so
similar, I can not derive any useful commentary from their news
pieces other than confirming what I already knew:
media personnel, no matter how or where they got their degree in
Journalism, go brain-dead when writing about anything that isn't an
ICE.
Perhaps the editor is tailoring the piece to the advertiser's demands?
I see few of these for the Nissan Leaf, Smart EV, Think EV,
Mitsubishi i-MiEV or the other Production EVs coming out. When Ford
does start selling its Focus EV hopefully later this year, I expect
to see some of these self-promotional pieces but on a small scale
than GM's efforts. GM seems to be spending a lot of money pushing
their pish.
When GM does release their European branding like the Vauxhall Ampera
I might see how many copycat newswires are made in the UK and Europe.
I suspect UK and European readers are wise to GM's tricks and GM will
have to use a different approach.
Please note: huge media outlets re-use their writers work by
re-printing over and over again in every outlet they have. I have to
weed out all the duplicates.
I have to add these self-promotional pieces to the number of unusable
newswires that chew up Internet bandwidth. The majority of those
having been paid-for by Big-Oil: EVs won't work, EVs will burn up the
power lines, poo-poo EV company stocks, 'Bama's-a-boob EV ideas ...
(you get the gist of their hate-talk approach to counter the EV
movement).
Weather report
Before I end this, there was a building of positive useful plug-in
vehicle (EVs and pihs) newswires around December, with its climax
reaching mid way in January 2010 with all the accolades, awards
given out, and lots of everyone patting themselves on the back.
Now, the EV newswires have dwindled. Oh, those negative and self
promotional newswire noise is still quite high, but amount newswires
on the on the growth of the EV movement has not stopped but slowed.
I look at this as a brief calming of the waters and I expect a
continuous supply of occasional spurts of items I can post that will
be of interest to evdl readers.
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make it to the list of those I consider worthy of evdl bandwidth use.
Of those laying on the cutting room floor, as-it-were, I see many
news pieces that are so similar that they have to be contrived, and
leads me to believe they were asked for by a sponsor and or an
advertiser.
Example:
http://www.vcstar.com/news/2011/feb/19/living-with-an-electric-car-in-ventura-countythe/
Living with an electric car in Ventura County...the first month
You can read it for yourself, but my focus of this post ...
OK, the title might look interesting, but it is a promotional piece
about GM's pish. There are a lot of these. The city and author names
change, but the wording, story-line intent, and ending summary are
the similar: yes, you should buy one.
If they were truly a unique write up, there should be a mix of pro,
con, and everything in-between.
>From all across the U.S., I find these Easter-egg GM pish stories.
Perhaps a local reading only local media stories would find these
stories interesting. But since all these copycat story lines are so
similar, I can not derive any useful commentary from their news
pieces other than confirming what I already knew:
media personnel, no matter how or where they got their degree in
Journalism, go brain-dead when writing about anything that isn't an
ICE.
Perhaps the editor is tailoring the piece to the advertiser's demands?
I see few of these for the Nissan Leaf, Smart EV, Think EV,
Mitsubishi i-MiEV or the other Production EVs coming out. When Ford
does start selling its Focus EV hopefully later this year, I expect
to see some of these self-promotional pieces but on a small scale
than GM's efforts. GM seems to be spending a lot of money pushing
their pish.
When GM does release their European branding like the Vauxhall Ampera
I might see how many copycat newswires are made in the UK and Europe.
I suspect UK and European readers are wise to GM's tricks and GM will
have to use a different approach.
Please note: huge media outlets re-use their writers work by
re-printing over and over again in every outlet they have. I have to
weed out all the duplicates.
I have to add these self-promotional pieces to the number of unusable
newswires that chew up Internet bandwidth. The majority of those
having been paid-for by Big-Oil: EVs won't work, EVs will burn up the
power lines, poo-poo EV company stocks, 'Bama's-a-boob EV ideas ...
(you get the gist of their hate-talk approach to counter the EV
movement).
Weather report
Before I end this, there was a building of positive useful plug-in
vehicle (EVs and pihs) newswires around December, with its climax
reaching mid way in January 2010 with all the accolades, awards
given out, and lots of everyone patting themselves on the back.
Now, the EV newswires have dwindled. Oh, those negative and self
promotional newswire noise is still quite high, but amount newswires
on the on the growth of the EV movement has not stopped but slowed.
I look at this as a brief calming of the waters and I expect a
continuous supply of occasional spurts of items I can post that will
be of interest to evdl readers.
{brucedp.150m.com}
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