#TIL about E. Bruce Harrison
"... (April 3, 1932 – January 16, 2021) was a public relations (PR) expert who organized several campaigns for the U.S. industry against environmental legislation from the 1970s to the 1990s. He has been called the father of environmental PR.
...
A sub-genus of mosquito was named Bruceharrisonius in 2003."
Oh come on - The Onion is meant to be satire.
"Elon throws tantrum, fires folks" is expected behaviour, not satire.
Is this categorising of Musk' s expected behaviour as being somehow "different and remarkable" part of some ongoing #ReputationLaundering campaign?
If so then sorry to see #TheOnion has been corrupted just like #TheGuardian and the #TheAtlantic.
Want to bet on the "Destruction is how Elon progresses" news releases being aready completed by his #SupplicantPress / #ReputationLaundering agents?
#ElonMusk said on Saturday that #SpaceX's #Starlink will support #communication links in #Gaza with "internationally recognized #aid organizations", prompting #Israel's communication minister to say #Israel would fight the move.
#HumanitarianCrisis #Blackout
still, #ReputationLaundering
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/musk-says-starlink-provide-connectivity-gaza-through-aid-organizations-2023-10-28/
@dougiec3
Don't know about censorship.
But #TheGuardian did publish a story about Musk and the non-supply of satellite navigation data to Ukraine's military that took claims by Musk and his associates at face value and presented as fact an interpretation of those claims which was highly favourable to Musk.
At a time when #Musk could well have benefited from some #ReputationLaundering
@chargrille
When multiple articles very quickly appeared proclaiming that the explosive destruction of Musk's most-bigly Rocket was actually a benefit to Musk's rocket program I wondered just how much of a PR machine could be purchased by a man with hundreds of billions of dollars.
Conclusion: A mega-bigly PR and #ReputationLaundering campaign could be bought.
Subsequent articles about Musk-Fear-Ukraine in The Atlantic, The Guardian and Snopes -> no change.
Looks like the bio won't either.
@axeshun @edgeoforever
Yep, I'm with you on this.
Taking a comm from Musk to his biographer at face-value is beyond naive.
This looks like #ReputationLaundering to me.
And The Guardian and The Atlantic should be ashamed of their involvement in it.
I remember too the so-quick appearance of articles about how beneficial having Musk's super rocket explode on landing was to the project.
Clearly an ongoing million dollar PR campaign surrounds Musk.
This article appears to be more #ReputationLaundering.
It takes as proven that #Musk acted out of fear.
"Musk did so because Russians (sometimes he says Putin) told him that a Ukrainian attack on part of Ukraine’s own territory (the Crimean peninsula, occupied by Russia) would lead to a Russian nuclear response. "
There is no proof that this was the reaon Musk shut down the sat-nav system.
Motivations are impossible to prove.
Musk's comms at the time prove nothing.
#UKR
@KayJanes
Answering the intent of your question:
Duckduckgo says yes.
It says yes so much that it appears that #DisasterRelief is a central element of the ongoing #ReputationLaundering / #PerceptionManagement / #PRCampaign of the #BoneSawKingdom.