Blame the Marketing Department
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Oldmangamer_73
September 14, 2012 1:24:01 PM
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chunkymonster
September 14, 2012 1:26:55 PM
I read that article and just shook my head in disgust...there really is no excuse for it...
Oldmangamer_73 said:
Does anyone believe this was an accident?I think so.
You see Marketing people do an arts degree.
In that sort of course you learn the difference between a boat and a ship ... and then ... a warship has pointy bits sticking out of it generally ... and its a ship ... so its bigger than a boat ... right?
So they looked for pictures with lots of big boats with pointy bits sticking out of them ... found a cool looking one with three of them (uber cool) ... then popped it into the slideshow.
They got that bit right.
How were they to know the ships were Russian?
Must have been a pretty old photo as most of the current Russian ships are covered in rust ...
Marketing ... all booked on the B Ark.
Yeah but the marketing people just focus on the pictures ... their "visual people" ... not strong on the detail.
Even "copy" to them means "a bunch of text I don't understand but I must get it to fit next to the photo and have a zingy first sentence".
I worked in marketing once.
It was mind numbing ... as you can clearly see from my posts over the last few years it might have damaged me somewhat ...
The end result of that presentation would have been quite disheartening for the Navy Vets ... I feel for them.
Even "copy" to them means "a bunch of text I don't understand but I must get it to fit next to the photo and have a zingy first sentence".
I worked in marketing once.
It was mind numbing ... as you can clearly see from my posts over the last few years it might have damaged me somewhat ...
The end result of that presentation would have been quite disheartening for the Navy Vets ... I feel for them.
ctbaars
October 15, 2012 6:08:51 PM
ctbaars
October 22, 2012 7:02:06 PM
ctbaars
October 22, 2012 8:28:38 PM
Yeah? No one bothered to review the work before putting it on the national stage? Instead of tapping our military agencies for pictures that 'intern' decided to do a Google Search instead? Really? And it wasn't an intern doing that. Those people making those slideshows get paid around $60,000 a year in the DC area to do that stuff. I have a few friends who worked under Bush and one that currently works under Obama.
ctbaars
October 23, 2012 6:24:14 PM
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Very poor association there.
"No one bothered to review the work before putting it on the national stage?" Correct! No conspiracy here, move along.