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"According to a trade publication called Corporate Secretary, it's time for the banks to do a little crisis management of Occupy the Boardroom:"

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"Jobs’s saintly genius is a carefully orchestrated performance by Apple, tech journalists, venture capitalists, and MacBook fanboys to create an illusion that we are blessed to be typing away on technologies of such holy grandeur. As this narrative grows so does Apple’s stocks. Social imaginaires like that which circulate around Jobs are stories we tell ourselves about ourselves with real impacts in the world.
Apple products are great, I’m using a couple right now. But the spiritual intonations describing Jobs’s role in the production of these easy to use, trendy, flashy, and expensive devices is overstated for a purpose. The auteur visionary, who throws off tradition, rises from the ashes and returns, and kills a rigid bohemoth (Gates) are all narratives that help to sell products and stocks. These stories encase the casings of Macbook and iPads with a genius virus that users mistakenly think is contagious."

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"The digitally savvy PR firm, Edelman, has agreed to represent News Corp., which is in crisis over big revelations from the UK that it hacked phones, paid off the cops, lied to regulators, lied to itself, and showed no interest in coming clean on the story for five years. This seemed to me a risky decision on Edelman's part. But maybe I don't understand the PR biz. Watch as I try to figure it out."

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Welcome to SourceWatch—your guide to the names behind the news. SourceWatch is a collaborative project of the Center for Media and Democracy to produce a directory of the people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda. A primary purpose of S

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