Robert Hettinga wrote:
Here's something from cyberia which talks about the persistence of anti-reputation memes even in the presence of perfectly contradictory information.
Subject: Re: America Online and liability... the Horror To: CYBERIA-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
In essence, the article documents a number of vicious rumours which have been spread on the internet about the clothing designer Tommy Hilfiger and allegedly racist comments that he made on the Ophrah Winfrey show.
Not withstanding the fact that 1) Mr. Hilfiger never appeared on the Winfrey show and never made the statements in question, and 2) Hilfiger Co. has engaged in an online P.R. campaign to counter these rumours, they are persistent and widespread.
I heard that the Hifiger's comments were actually made on the eca$h list, which regularly contains posts suggesting euthenasia for the elderly and the disabled. Of course, my source was posting from whitehouse.gov... -- Toto "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" http://bureau42.base.org/public/xenix/xenbody.html