procrastination or communication?

David asked me to spend a week posting to his blog. It seemed a dangerous new form of procrastination for me as I try to finish helping my mother work on the first draft of a remake of her awkwardly titled (but of course brilliant!) 1994 book, The Quickening of America. (She didn't get my reference to Highlander, which up until then had been the only time I'd heard the word quickening before. We're still working on a new title.)

I was just perusing what has been posted recently and thought I'd jump into the Super Size Me fray with a link to this industry-funded slam-Spurlock site. You know you're making an impact when you've got industry PR flacks on your back.

Comments

[shira]

anna lappé, welcome to david's blog!

re mcdonald's and super size me, the industry-funded site is one big smear campaign. furthermore, half their links, when clicked, automatically download word documents onto your desktop! EVIL!

[dj]

I agree, it's totally aggravating. I wonder if track changes is on.

[shira]

And this is from the fact sheet about the producer's of the site!

Tech Central Station is supported by sponsoring corporations that share our faith in technology and free markets. Smart application of technology - combined with pro free market, science-based public policy - has the ability to help us solve many of the world's problems, and so we are grateful to AT&T, Avue Technologies, The Coca-Cola Company, ExxonMobil, General Motors Corporation, Intel, McDonalds, Merck, Microsoft, Nasdaq, Pfizer, PhRMA and Qualcomm for their support. All of these corporations are industry leaders that have made great strides in using technology for our betterment, and we are proud to have them as sponsors.

WOW!

[finn]

half their links, when clicked, automatically download word documents onto your desktop! EVIL!

Shira, what you fail to realize is how much easier it makes it to write news stories when you copy and paste quotes right from an official looking word doc.