An Idea

[Spamtheman]

Something struck me as I read Lonegunman's post in the discussion on an international award.

a sneaky form of attack: If Telkom is receiving 'awards' from strange groups that are possibly 'front groups' paid for by Telkom's own PR/Marketing firms - short emails to local newspapers in UK/US pointing out our plight and pointing to these odd groups, and the insanity of these awards, might actually make journalists sit up and perhaps look into it. Unlike here, the Media over in UK and US, is always keen to uncover scandal and dirt. Even though we're far away from UK/US - the idea of a company creating fake 'awards' for itself, for use back in its home country, might grab some muckraking journo's interest..

Might it not be worth our while to assemble some sort of press package on the site for people to link directly to that would appropriately sum up our position. From broadband pricing and international comparisons (like rpm's ICASA presentation) to issues like capping and shaping.

The idea would be that every time we see another lopsided public relations release disguised as a news article, locally and internationally, we could send a barrage of emails to the newspaper or news site in question linking directly to the press package rather than expecting lazy journalists (not that they are all lazy) to scour the forums and old articles to get a coherant grasp of our situation.

If we keep the information clear, simple and well presented we could use the same package to send to local politicians even.

 

[fergus]

Something struck me as I read Lonegunman's post in the discussion on an international award.



Might it not be worth our while to assemble some sort of press package on the site for people to link directly to that would appropriately sum up our position. From broadband pricing and international comparisons (like rpm's ICASA presentation) to issues like capping and shaping.

The idea would be that every time we see another lopsided public relations release disguised as a news article, locally and internationally, we could send a barrage of emails to the newspaper or news site in question linking directly to the press package rather than expecting lazy journalists (not that they are all lazy) to scour the forums and old articles to get a coherant grasp of our situation.

If we keep the information clear, simple and well presented we could use the same package to send to local politicians even.

Yes, brilliant idea! I've been meaning to suggest something like this too. Like a Telkom facts area. All the icasa presentations can be in there and so on.