At a press event for Saab’s new Aero X concept car:
A Norwegian paper drags the car away to [a gas station] and the reporter gets incredibly upset when we join him. He says he’s got exclusive rights to the idea. But at the gas station there is also a young girl, who takes a photo of the car with her cell phone. A few seconds later all her friends have an MMS-photo of the Aero X. That’s exclusivity in 2006.
3 responses to “Everyone has the exclusive”
Poor journalist.
If all he had was an idea for a photo-shoot then he would be upset.
Couldn’t be much of a journalist though if he couldn’t also write a story around the car and interpret its potential value to his readership.
The kid with the camera might have the snap and it might go online, but the interpretation is where the journalist ought to score.
The interesting thing too, David, is if anyone who got the MMS from the camera girl then posted the pic to a blog or some other online place (Flickr or My Spaces, for example) with their interpretation of the car. And what might the subsequent connection of such posts be, I wonder.
Saab’s PR agency has a nice monitoring job to do.
PR Miscellany – April 18, 2006…
Thought for the day: Does is scare anyone else that we’re already half way through April? There was an episode of “The Outer Limits” or the “Twilight Zone” where aliens landed on Earth and declared that the human race was……