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On Wed, 24 May 2000, Paul marsden wrote:
>>In that article, Paul, you say you refused to work on an anti-smoking
>>campaign because you don't want to change the way people think. Do you see
>>a clear distinction between that and "mere" advertising, PR, etc? Or is it
>>a matter of degree? Are your personal feelings about such issues
>>necessarily involved, or not?
>
>I'm afraid the journo got the wrong end of the stick there -
I just thought -- do you think there might have been a connection between
equating "anti-smoking campaign" and "telling people what to think", and the
particular newspaper this journo worked for? Seems memetically interesting
to me.
(For our overseas readers: that paper, The Telegraph, is the most rightwing
of the serious national dailies.)
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