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Talk:Jonestown Massacre (view source)
Revision as of 22:52, January 31, 2019
, 22:52, January 31, 2019→Someone better get their facts straight
:::Here's my theory: this occurred before the 1980 Chicago Tylenol-cyanide scare and the 1984 [https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/07/24/Workmen-today-dismantled-McDonalds-trademark-Golden-Arches-at-the/5236459489600/ San Ysidro McDonald's massacre]. In the later two events, Tylenol and McDonald's took immediate steps to protect their name brand, probably based on the experience of Kool-Aid. This has been often discussed in marketing and advertising publications and business schools since. Even journalism has been affected. When similar events have occurred in recent decades, new organizations are careful not to offend sponsors or potential advertisers by citing name brands in horrific stories, kinda the same way they don't identify the race of a person in a horrific crime. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''Deep Six the Deep State!'']]</sup> 16:23, 31 January 2019 (EST)
:::Here's my theory: this occurred before the 1980 Chicago Tylenol-cyanide scare and the 1984 [https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/07/24/Workmen-today-dismantled-McDonalds-trademark-Golden-Arches-at-the/5236459489600/ San Ysidro McDonald's massacre]. In the later two events, Tylenol and McDonald's took immediate steps to protect their name brand, probably based on the experience of Kool-Aid. This has been often discussed in marketing and advertising publications and business schools since. Even journalism has been affected. When similar events have occurred in recent decades, new organizations are careful not to offend sponsors or potential advertisers by citing name brands in horrific stories, kinda the same way they don't identify the race of a person in a horrific crime. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''Deep Six the Deep State!'']]</sup> 16:23, 31 January 2019 (EST)
:::IOW, a company spends millions to build up public trust in a namebrand, and has it wiped out in a moment by a single nutcase and a sensationalizing media trying scoop headlines, even when the headlines destroy one of their own sponsors. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''Deep Six the Deep State!'']]</sup> 16:32, 31 January 2019 (EST)
:::IOW, a company spends millions to build up public trust in a namebrand, and has it wiped out in a moment by a single nutcase and a sensationalizing media trying scoop headlines, even when the headlines destroy one of their own sponsors. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''Deep Six the Deep State!'']]</sup> 16:32, 31 January 2019 (EST)
::::Flavoraid and Kool-Aid were seen on camera in Jonestown before the incident so they may have had both products in their supplies.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOqszjh_9es]
::::Regardless of the underlying facts of which product(s) were used in the mass suicide, both brands are likely permanently tainted somewhat. No big deal. Both products are probably not good for people's health anyways. It is very hard to reposition a brand.
::::There is a "brand" more permanently and extensively having branding problems. And that is the "brand" of atheism. See: [[Distrust of atheists]] and [[Views on atheists]].[[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 17:52, 31 January 2019 (EST)