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Re:EFF Flew a Plane over Apple's Headquarters by blitzar on Friday September 24, 2021 @09:21AM (#28641947)
> EFF did this is to get journalists to get a story to write about the issue.

Except exactly 0 articles were written outside of them writing an article about it themselves. Where is the 'lots of publicity'? They generate just as much when they write and article about anything in general.

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Re:EFF Flew a Plane over Apple's Headquarters by hoppyhoppy2 on Friday September 24, 2021 @09:24AM (#28641991)
>Except exactly 0 articles were written outside of them writing an article about it themselves

It was also covered by MacRumors: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/09/24/eff-apple-park-banner-c...

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Re:EFF Flew a Plane over Apple's Headquarters by blitzar on Friday September 24, 2021 @09:34AM (#28642131)
Ahh finally found one! Btw that was published after it hit the front page here.
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Re:EFF Flew a Plane over Apple's Headquarters by WarOnPrivacy on Friday September 24, 2021 @09:45AM (#28642245)
See? Story seeding in progress. This thread is welcomed to the media ecochain.
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Re:EFF Flew a Plane over Apple's Headquarters by blitzar on Friday September 24, 2021 @10:51AM (#28643222)
I am rather disapointed to see HN has more power to seed a story than the EFF.
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Re:EFF Flew a Plane over Apple's Headquarters by tailspin2019 on Friday September 24, 2021 @11:03AM (#28643417)
If an organisation writes an article to promote a cause, and it gets picked up and commented on by other websites... isn't it that original organisation who "seeded" the story?
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Re:EFF Flew a Plane over Apple's Headquarters by FabHK on Friday September 24, 2021 @09:25AM (#28642001)
Maybe you're right. My point was that having one banner towing flight is not an outrageous expense of money or CO2.
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Re:EFF Flew a Plane over Apple's Headquarters by codeyperson on Saturday September 25, 2021 @08:41PM (#28657397)
There's still time. Also it made the front page of Hacker News. So I'd say that's a success.
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