(via ClickOn Detroit) “Northwest Airlines Corp. has pulled the December issue of its in-flight magazine in the wake of an NBA brawl involving the magazine’s feature subject, Denver Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony.”
The company says it doesn’t want to appear to “condone” Anthony’s involvement in the brawl by leaving the magazine in circulation. I guess I can see how they connected the dots to come up with such a decision, but I can see some worm-can opening here regarding advertiser make-goods, etc., that could become problematic for someone.
Recently, when the Nashville TV station WKRN ‘friended me’ on MySpace, I blogged that it caused me to discover that TV stations must be “feminine” as WKRN’s MySpace profile described “her” as a 53-year-old female.
Today, I learned (sorry, I can’t retrace who pointed me there) that some resourceful reporters at the Fife Herald in Scotland have set up a MySpace account. (Side note: I actually consider Fife “local” as the 19-year-old attends the University of St Andrews.) In its case, however, the Fife Herald is described on MySpace as a 100-year-old male. (”The Gray Lady” may be surprised to learn that newspapers are males.)
Shouldn’t MySpace be issuing guidelines on this important matter?
I apologize in advance for not being aware if there have been any long-simmering debates in the linguistic community related to the genderfication of institutions who/that join online social networks.
Technorati Tags: myspace, fife, socia media
Riffing on the absurdity of Chicago Cubs pitcher Glendon Rusch telling a WSJ reporter he’s going to “surprise” his wife with a $122,000 Aston Martin, BusinessWeek’s Stephen Baker imagines an O Henry ending to the story.
