On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:34:43PM -0500, Yaron wrote: > On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, Florin Iucha wrote: > >> Tom's response was curt but well-intended. Surely you can ask what >> their cause is and even try to influence it. > > He was asked. That's when he called us all corporate media outlets. Yaron, Please read the thread again. You made the accurate observation that "There is absolutely no coherent message here." Tom also made the correct comment that "Coherent message is corporate media talk." Corporations need coherent messages because they want to sell you stuff and trying to sell you too many things at once will confuse you (see 'The Paradox of Choice' [1]). Obviously different corporations will try to sell you different products, so you cannot say that 'the market has a coherent message for you'. From my careful reading of the thread I can see two things: * You did not ask anybody here 'what is the occupy* message'. * Nobody called nobody corporation or a media outlet ([2]). Cheers, florin 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice:_Why_More_Is_Less 2: http://publicrelationsblogger.com/2006/08/what-is-media-outlet-definition-and.html -- Don't question authority! They don't know either. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20111022/6a5fee4f/attachment.pgp>