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UPDATED Whenever you think corporate America can’t be more odious/ludicrous, you are surprised: “(AP) LINCOLN, Neb. – Beef Products Inc. plans to file a defamation lawsuit in the wake of a publicity storm over a meat product that critics have dubbed ‘pink slime.’ The Dakota Dunes, S.D.-based company said Wednesday that it will announce a […]
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Everyone knows that frequently the press is your enemy. In the desperate quest for eyeballs on the web its writers develop idiotic essays, wrap them up in pseudo-authority, and publish because they know it will get under a lot of skin. So it was a recent blog entry at the WaPost’s WonkBlog, where Barry Plumer, […]
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From the wire, on lean finely textured beef: Larry Smith, with the Institute for Crisis Management public relations firm, said he’s not sure the makers of pink slime — including Cargill and BPI — will be able to overcome the public stigma against their product at this point. “I can’t think of a single solitary […]
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Some weekend quotes worth repeating, from the losing campaign to re-invigorate the image of pink slime. It’s easy to make jokes about the p.r. — ‘it’s un-American to not like pink slime’ or some variation on it. Further, subversion of pink slime is a conspiracy needing Congressional investigation. Perhaps there could be something like the […]
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My lunch, revolting to some. Two hot dogs — actually cheaper turkey franks — and one for late in the afternoon. Since I’ve been doing the slime thing I wanted to let readers know: Of course I’m a hypocrite on meat. You have to be in this country. I’m 90 percent sure turkey franks are […]
Consider imagery for pink slime, pulled up by Google. However, the next bit will really date you. Pulled from YouTube, it’s a segment from the now very old movie, “The Groove Tube.” I thought this was hysterical when I was … about fourteen or fifteen. “Among other characteristics, it had the strength of steel, the […]
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Someone who scans only for keywords and proper names on Twitter, now following me because they mistakenly believe I’m on the same page, spiritually. Not the first time, either, just one of the more unintentionally funny. Which makes me also ask the question, “How do you follow 9k twits?” Social media big numbers, all about […]
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Unintentional hilarity, furnished by a couple of people to rebut the charges that have destroyed the market for pink slime. It’s here. Click on the top video clip. It’s stunning in its inadequacy. Wherever did they get the idea to hire some fat agricultural scientist, someone who looks like he could cut down on the […]
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Pink slime and Beef Products, Inc. are on the ropes. So politicians who aren’t very popular have been recruited to burnish the image. Public relations men gather, offering advice they know won’t work. It’s black comedy watching the calamity unfold. And a bit reassuring, knowing this is going down to defeat unless the company can […]
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So far this week Kroger and SafeWay, two of the nation’s biggest supermarket chains (I shop at Ralphs in Pasadena, a Kroger property), have forsworn Beef Products, Inc’s pink slime. From the wire: Supermarket chains Kroger Co. and Stop & Shop said Thursday they will join the growing list of store chains that will no […]
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