Lessons From the Gizmodo-CES Flap

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  Marc45301/18/08 Report as spam
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  How CES will use this incident to promote itself

  I'm a 54 year old Public Affairs flack with more than 35 years in the Public Affairs area. I'm also a ferverent reader of Gizmodo and Engadet. While I don't condone what they did, I like a good gag every know and then. In fact I think they would be in the running for the Gag of the Year Award. I'm sure cooler heads will prevail and the CES management seeing an opportunity to turn this into a positive will lift the ban of Gizmodo in a public forum, thus using this incident to promote the next CES, and avoiding the ire of bloggers everywhere.

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  S.Howard-Sarin01/18/08 Report as spam
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  Radio disc jockey humor

  It wasn't until I read this blog post that I thought to compare the Gizmodo low-brow humor with radio disc jockeys -- who pull stunts like this all the time.
  
  We so often leap to compare bloggers with newspaper journalists, whose standards of ethics are higher than their editorial cousins on TV or radio.
  
  Who's to say that bloggers aren't closer to talk radio or shock jocks?

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  RE: Lessons From the Gizmodo-CES Flap

  Engadget and Gizmodo are probably the two top electronics blogs out there..
  CES is just shooting itself in the foot.
  
  The techie crowd love those sort of pranks.. CES is definitely not going to
  endear itself..