Chick-fil-A busted doing damage control

[talisman]

hahahahahaha

http://gizmodo.com/5928926/chick+fil+a-got-caught-pretending-to-be-a-fake-teenage-girl-on-facebook

Chick-fil-A, home of chicken-loving bigots, is in the middle of a PR nightmare. After Chick-fil-A's COO admitted to being anti-gay, the Jim Henson Company (bless their heart) pulled their toys from Chick-fil-A's kids meals. Only Chick-fil-A claimed the toys were pulled because of a "possible safety issue". That, of course, is a complete lie. A lie that the company may be propagating with fake Facebook accounts of Chick-fil-a sympathists.

Yep, Chick-fil-A is still stuck in its own reality and is doubling down on its lie. Instead of owning up to the fact that The Jim Henson Company stopped doing business with them because they're overrun with bigots, the chicken sandwich company appears to have made fake Facebook accounts to defend its honor on the social network. How do we know the accounts are fake? Just check out this back and forth on Chick-fil-A's Facebook page between real, breathing people and "Abby Farle", a Facebook account that was made 8 hours ago by a chicken PR flack with a stock image of a teenage girl as her profile picture:




It's a dirty, awful trick that is completely embarrassing and just shows how sleazy a company backed up against a wall can be. Especially a company that doesn't believe in treating all humans equally. Of course, there's a chance that this could all be a stunt to shame Chick-fil-A—or an overzealous supporter—but that company hardly needs more shaming. Chick-fil-A is being rightfully pummeled to the ground by anyone who believes in equality, its delicious chicken sandwiches be damned.

[2011GT]

Who gives a shit? Their Chicken is at least tasty!

[ELVIS]

i'll prolly have a grilled chicken sand. from there for dinner.

god bless/

[Sean88gt]

A private company having an opinion and sticking with it? Good for them. They'll benefit from this more than it will harm them.

[HarrisonTX]

I don't Care about this. He was asked his opinion and he had the balls to say it. he picked a side. So what.

[talisman]

A private company having an opinion and sticking with it? Good for them. They'll benefit from this more than it will harm them.

They aren't sticking with it if they are creating fake FB accounts to defend them.


And honestly, I was kind of surprised the guy had the balls to say it. A little impressed, even. I might think he is a moron, but there is still a level of respect there for saying what you think.

[Lason]

Chick-fil-a loves the cock



.....get it, the cock?

[sc281]

A private company having an opinion and sticking with it? Good for them. They'll benefit from this more than it will harm them.

I don't Care about this. He was asked his opinion and he had the balls to say it. he picked a side. So what.

i'll prolly have a grilled chicken sand. from there for dinner.

god bless/

All of these, except mine will eb a #1 with cheese and pickles with a Tea, lite ice.

[Randy]

They aren't sticking with it if they are creating fake FB accounts to defend them.

^This

I have no problems with him saying what he said, but to pull the FB bullshit IMO means he only has one ball..... not a full pair.

None the less.... I'll still eat their food.

[roliath]

who gives a shit, chick-fil-a is good.

[Rick Modena]

I hate CFA just as much as the bullshitassfucking Plano PD!

[Strychnine]

Pardon the momentary hijack... Eric, I haven't read it yet, but you reminded me of a book I want to pick up. The way companies, and individuals, can twist anything, even marketing, is scary.




Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator

How the economics of the Internet are exploited to change public perception

You’ve seen it all before. A malicious online rumor costs a company millions. A political sideshow derails the national news cycle and destroys a candidate. Some product or celebrity zooms from total obscurity to viral sensation. What you don’t know is that someone is responsible for all this. Usually, someone like me.

I’m a media manipulator. In a world where blogs control and distort the news, my job is to control blogs—as much as any one person can.

In today’s culture…
1) Blogs like Gawker, Buzzfeed and the Huffington Post drive the media agenda.
2) Bloggers are slaves to money, technology, and deadlines.
3) Manipulators wield these levers to shape everything you read, see and watch—online and off.

Why am I giving away these secrets? Because I'm tired of a world where blogs take indirect bribes, marketers help write the news, reckless journalists spread lies, and no one is accountable for any of it. I'm pulling back the curtain because I don't want anyone else to get blindsided.

I’m going to explain exactly how the media really works. What you choose to do with this information is up to you.

I like to believe the role of public media — of good public media, at least — is to frame for people what matters in the world and why. E. B. White, ever the idealist, famously said that the role of the writer should be “to lift people up, not lower them down” because “writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.” But the currencies of what’s essentially a question of motive change dramatically when public media become big business, and the kind of life they inform and shape can become a gross and dangerous aberration of reality, of what really matters from a humanistic perspective. Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator (public library) by Ryan Holiday lives somewhere between The Influencing Machine, The Filter Bubble, and The Information Diet, exploring precisely what happens when these motives become business motives and not motives of civic responsibility. And Holiday should know — former media strategist for clients of Dov Charney’s notoriety and current marketing director of American Apparel, the college-dropout-turned-communications-mastermind has been, as he puts it, “paid to deceive” on behalf of world-famous authors, musicians, movie moguls, and politicians alike.
Holiday proudly professes:

Usually, it is a simple hustle. Someone pays me, I manufacture a story for them, and we trade it up the chain — from a tiny blog to Gawker to a website of a local news network to the Huffington Post to the major newspapers to cable news and back again, until the unreal becomes real. Sometimes I start by planting a story. Sometimes I put out a press release or ask a friend to break a story on their blog. Sometimes I ‘leak’ a document. Sometimes I fabricate a document and leak that. Really, it can be anything, from vandalizing a Wikipedia page to producing an expensive viral video. However the play starts, the end is the same: The economics of the Internet are exploited to change public perception — and sell product.

If it sounds appalling and revolting and like the end of the free press, it’s because it is — but lest we forget, Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator is also a product, and if selling it requires a calculated maneuver of scandalization, then it’s both fair game and meta-commentary on the very system within which Holiday plays.

[sc281]

I hate CFA just as much as the bullshitassfucking Plano PD!

So.... you're gay?

[Rick Modena]

So.... you're gay?

How can one be gay for not liking a certain fast food resturant? I should BAN you for a week, just for being stupid.

[sc281]

How can one be gay for not liking a certain fast food resturant? I should BAN you for a week, just for being stupid.

It was a joke, since everyone that doesn't like chick fil a lately is gay and upset that they don't encourage the gay way.