Friday, June 08, 2012

Proof Positive That There Is No Such Thing As Bad PR

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From the WaPo's Flying Spaghetti Monster's Ball blog:


.... (Twenty-four hours after the)news broke that the Vatican had condemned the book “Just Love:A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics,” a publication by a prominent nun-theologian that disagrees with church teaching on same-sex marriage, masturbation and remarrying after divorce. Monday morning, the book’s reported ranking on Amazon: 142,982...


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....(The next) afternoon, after a day of furious news coverage of the Vatican censure: (It was at) at #16....



How do you like them apples?

(or should that be loaves and fishes?)


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2 comments:

  1. Arleigh Chase12:03 pm, June 09, 2012

    It looks like a Vatican condemnation is almost as good for authors as an Oprah blessing.

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  2. RossK1:18 pm, June 09, 2012

    Arleigh--

    Ya.

    Or put another way....A reverse Oprah from the piked-position is, essentially, an Oprah, regardless.

    Heckfire, even a negative Oprah is, apparently, worth something, if only for awhile....

    Just ask Jonathan Franzen.


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