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Originally Posted by mark777
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Looking at the Downing Street petitions (not available at the moment), what gets the votes?
Saving money (Fuel duty and costs).
Patriotism (Ghurkers and Red Arrows).
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To be fair these things are in the news and fuel costs have immediate sympathy. But if Joe Public shouted loud enough about nearly anything, the newspapers would pick up on it because they know it would then help them sell more papers. People like to read about things that interest them.
Newspapers are ultimately only interested in making money and if they think a story has enough interest they will make it run! If the interest is perceived by the mainstream daily papers to be only from IT professionals they will leave it to the likes of IT Weekly to report.
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Originally Posted by mark777
I agree 100% with what you say.
What we need like a hole in the head is to be classed as 'geeks' or the 'looney left'.
Boffins are good. People trust boffins. We need people to trust our message more than they do the guff from BT or Phorm.
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Totally agree. I would guess anybody who has had dealings with BT fault complaints will come on board fairly easy. They already know how bad their guff is. The problem is getting people to mistrust Phorm. Again 121Media would be a good starter for 10.