Been on the first jog around the blogs today and certain things became apparent in the public and blogger perception of the non-event.
May I put it this way?
If I had a multi-billion project under way and public perception was a very large factor in its continuation, if I had quite a few round table partners and they had certain expectations of a return on their investment, if I had subscribed, long ago, to a game plan for Europe and beyond, along with many others, then I'd manage the release of the information to the press through carefully selected channels.
Where I couldn't control this, I'd make sure the project began inauspiciously, innocuously, just a zap around the complex and no doomsday whatsoever. The more ambitious parts of the project would perhaps not form part of the press releases to my more sympathetic journalists and media icons and would not be scheduled for some weeks.
This would be a very cynical approach, I confess, relying, as it does, on the first premise that "if it hasn't happened today, it ain't gonna happen" and on the second premise that "the public needs its news here and now, after which it loses interest".
Of course there is no cynicism in this project whatsoever, just good old science and altruism. It's all to serve man.
May I put it this way?
If I had a multi-billion project under way and public perception was a very large factor in its continuation, if I had quite a few round table partners and they had certain expectations of a return on their investment, if I had subscribed, long ago, to a game plan for Europe and beyond, along with many others, then I'd manage the release of the information to the press through carefully selected channels.
Where I couldn't control this, I'd make sure the project began inauspiciously, innocuously, just a zap around the complex and no doomsday whatsoever. The more ambitious parts of the project would perhaps not form part of the press releases to my more sympathetic journalists and media icons and would not be scheduled for some weeks.
This would be a very cynical approach, I confess, relying, as it does, on the first premise that "if it hasn't happened today, it ain't gonna happen" and on the second premise that "the public needs its news here and now, after which it loses interest".
Of course there is no cynicism in this project whatsoever, just good old science and altruism. It's all to serve man.
In a rather circular argument, one could say that they may be getting near to the "Second aspect", but from a completely different direction.
ReplyDeleteStrange how things evolve.
There's an easy way, and a hard way, and.....................
It's just that no one seems capable of thinking laterally.
Oh, well.
Actually a scientist friend of ours, from Moscow, is on one of the huge teams and was in Switzerland for the big "non event" although I don't think he'll call it that.
ReplyDeleteWe'll all be quizzing him when he comes to Vancouver later this year.
Let's wait and see although we probably will not see.
ReplyDeleteI think there will be some spin later ;-)
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