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Re: Atari Advertising Idea

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From: Michael J. Farren
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 1988 15:11
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In article <3623@cup.portal.com> roger_warren_tang@cup.portal.com writes:
>  This is aside from the misbegotten perception that the computing world is
>too lily white in the eyes of the ad executives to accept a person of color
>as a spokes person (ever wonder why there are no endorsements for the top
>black tennis players?).

Didn't seem to bother Texas Instruments too much when they got Bill
Cosby as their spokesman.

-- 
Michael J. Farren             | "INVESTIGATE your point of view, don't just 
{ucbvax, uunet, hoptoad}!     | dogmatize it!  Reflect on it and re-evaluate
        unisoft!gethen!farren | it.  You may want to change your mind someday."
gethen!farren@lll-winken.llnl.gov ----- Tom Reingold, from alt.flame 
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From: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari Advertising Idea
Message-ID: <729@gethen.UUCP>
Date: 5 Mar 88 15:11:38 GMT
References: <690@netxcom.UUCP> <3623@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Organization: There's Unix there in Oakland
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