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by Mike Masnick

Mon, Jul 28th 2003 2:13pm





Amazon's Fake Blogger Now Real?

from the amazing-reappearance-act dept

This one is odd. Two weeks ago we had the story of how Amazon's employee "working at Amazon.com" blog was fake and was just a recruiting tool put together by Amazon's marketing department. They even quoted someone from Amazon saying: "Without going into whether the content is factually accurate or not, what I can tell you is that it was not an individual's personal blog. It was a recruiting message that we put in the form of a blog to experiment." Now, however, it looks like they may have been lying about that as well. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is now claiming that the mysterious Amazon blogger is real and even has his own personal blog. So, maybe I'm confused, but why would Amazon's spokesperson say that it wasn't a real blog, when it turned out it actually was? Under what circumstances would that be the better answer?

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    Amazon's Fake Blogger Now Real?

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    Gord B., Jul 29th, 2003 @ 12:46am

    Don't be confused. It's what I call 'doubleback psychology. Amazon finally says the blog is a fake (which it is). But we want to disbelieve big lying megacorporation-- which is what *Amazon* wants as well. Thus we will believe what they want us to believe. Hope that explains it. :)

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    Anonymous Coward, Jul 29th, 2003 @ 8:38am

    Uh, I think you're still confused. The blog wasn't fake - what was fake was that that it was done by PR, or "directed by PR". It was essentially an innocent blog that Catbert used for evil HR purposes.

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    Why not?

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    A.A.Raph, Nov 20th, 2007 @ 2:16pm

    I don't see anything wrong with an Amazon real Blogger. It's about time that people express their views through such powerful worldwide Web.

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