Is there any more info on this "declaration of goodwill" besides the BBC article? If not, I don't think there's any way you can assume that journalists are held from making negative comments. I work in music/entertainment publicity and the term goodwill or good faith generally means that you don't misrepresent yourself. For journalists that usually means that if you are granted an interview, say, you are honest about what it's for... for example that it's for the TV show you work on and not some private book project, or that if you ask for quotes for a "story about jazz" it's not really for a story about how your ex-girlfriend says you beat her. Basically it just means that you agree to act in a professional manner.
In the case of this screening, absent other evidence, I would strongly assume that the intent was to prevent any smuggling of images or plot devices, etc... I find it extremely hard to believe that a journalist would be prevented from commenting generally that what they saw was uninteresting, poorly done, etc... Just about every news organization has strong policies that prevent all of their reporters from entering into such agreements.
Yeah, yeah... I know you're not a paid shill... if you've been hanging out on the FC message boards though, there have been a bunch of postings from new handles claiming "confusion" this morning. So I suspect these guys are up to something similar to that.
Although you apparently are speaking for yourself... I do question any claims of confusion. It doesn't really seem like anyone who was not familiar with and actively seeking out fuckedcompany would see that splash page, nor would they confuse that with idealab (I'll point out the word FUCK in large type again here) if they did.
You're problem appears to be not paying attention to which browser window you are in. That's not cause to remove first amendment parody protections, IMHO.
Here's another paid shill. In order for idealab(!) to have anything at all they have to prove confusion... Check the C+D letter for that. That's why these random people are showing up on the message boards earnestly claiming they were confused. Bull - Shit. So you saw the word FUCK in giant letters on the screen after you typed "fuckedcompany.com" in your browser, and thought that you were actually at idealab? Right, dude. Hope you're paid well for this.
This, methinks, is totally out of bound with the prevailing sentiment- but I think the advertising thing has been blown a little out of proportion. I hate annoying and intrusive ads, and I really hate spam email... but generally advertising does have a useful purpose. Namely, to let me know about things I might want. While I am scared shitless of people having too much personal information about me, I can't say that the ostensible goal - that is to customize ad messages to the people who are most likely to benefit from them - is all bad. I mean... i think most of us spend a huge portion of our time buying stuff and thinking about buying stuff... and if people want to let me know about how to buy stuff i want more or are paying less for then I'm a little disingenuous to bitch endlessly right?
It's more the privacy issues and the annoying/intrusive stuff that everyone has a problem with methinks. I mean... advertisements are information... selling stuff makes up the economy... and this is the information economy right? It's making all the geeks rich, we can't complain too much.....
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Is there any more info on this "declaration of goodwill" besides the BBC article? If not, I don't think there's any way you can assume that journalists are held from making negative comments. I work in music/entertainment publicity and the term goodwill or good faith generally means that you don't misrepresent yourself. For journalists that usually means that if you are granted an interview, say, you are honest about what it's for... for example that it's for the TV show you work on and not some private book project, or that if you ask for quotes for a "story about jazz" it's not really for a story about how your ex-girlfriend says you beat her. Basically it just means that you agree to act in a professional manner.
In the case of this screening, absent other evidence, I would strongly assume that the intent was to prevent any smuggling of images or plot devices, etc... I find it extremely hard to believe that a journalist would be prevented from commenting generally that what they saw was uninteresting, poorly done, etc... Just about every news organization has strong policies that prevent all of their reporters from entering into such agreements.
Yeah, yeah... I know you're not a paid shill... if you've been hanging out on the FC message boards though, there have been a bunch of postings from new handles claiming "confusion" this morning. So I suspect these guys are up to something similar to that.
Although you apparently are speaking for yourself... I do question any claims of confusion. It doesn't really seem like anyone who was not familiar with and actively seeking out fuckedcompany would see that splash page, nor would they confuse that with idealab (I'll point out the word FUCK in large type again here) if they did.
You're problem appears to be not paying attention to which browser window you are in. That's not cause to remove first amendment parody protections, IMHO.
Here's another paid shill. In order for idealab(!) to have anything at all they have to prove confusion... Check the C+D letter for that. That's why these random people are showing up on the message boards earnestly claiming they were confused. Bull - Shit. So you saw the word FUCK in giant letters on the screen after you typed "fuckedcompany.com" in your browser, and thought that you were actually at idealab? Right, dude. Hope you're paid well for this.
This, methinks, is totally out of bound with the prevailing sentiment- but I think the advertising thing has been blown a little out of proportion. I hate annoying and intrusive ads, and I really hate spam email... but generally advertising does have a useful purpose. Namely, to let me know about things I might want. While I am scared shitless of people having too much personal information about me, I can't say that the ostensible goal - that is to customize ad messages to the people who are most likely to benefit from them - is all bad. I mean... i think most of us spend a huge portion of our time buying stuff and thinking about buying stuff... and if people want to let me know about how to buy stuff i want more or are paying less for then I'm a little disingenuous to bitch endlessly right?
It's more the privacy issues and the annoying/intrusive stuff that everyone has a problem with methinks. I mean... advertisements are information... selling stuff makes up the economy... and this is the information economy right? It's making all the geeks rich, we can't complain too much.....