Jul 4, 2008 13:24:32 GMT akku said:
I'm reminded...Years ago a mate of mine started a protest because the drinking water in his part of town was so bad. It was affecting the whole area and it was brown tinted and a bit smelly. He tried to get some national media coverage, on the basis of "people paying expenisve water bills, fat cats getting huge bonuses, companies make huge profits and consumer gets dangerous product" but it was only when he said "you'd come out cleaner if you bathed in baked beans!" as a throw away line that the Scum was interested. Paid for 20 gallons of beans and in he goes, naievely thinking that this will make the point about the dirty tap water quite graphically. But no, of course the Scum runs the article "Nutter in Notts bathes in beans!" you know, loves beans so much he takes a bath in them, all that sort of thing. Not the point about the water supply being substandard by 3rd world standards....
Shabby behavour by Murdoch's finest, but a funny story. Thank you for it.
TV uses the same tricks - they'll never tell you what the programme's going to be called until it's too late for you to protest...
