Re: "viral marketing" on Radio 4

From: derek gatherer (dgatherer2002@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Thu 27 May 2004 - 10:50:53 GMT

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    The recording is here:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/ram/today3_food_20040527.ram

    The viral marketing bit is towards the end, after a lot of stuff about "energy density" etc.

     --- Alan Patrick <a.patrick@btinternet.com> wrote: >
    --- derek gatherer <dgatherer2002@yahoo.co.uk>
    > wrote:
    > > Did anybody catch John Humphreys this morning on
    > the
    > > "Today" programme on Radio 4? It was about
    > 7.40am,
    > > and there was an item about the food industry and
    > > how
    > > children are getting too fat. I was driving and
    > > only
    > > half listening, and suddenly JH says that viral
    > > marketing is "unethical", "unjustifiable" and
    > "ought
    > > to be banned". Apparent Kelloggs were doing
    > > something..... I wish I had been paying
    > attention.
    > >
    >
    > Viral Marketing is these days a synonym for Pyramid
    > schemes.
    >
    > Semantic shifts...
    >
    > alan
    >
    >
    >
    >
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