Edellus said:
I'm definitely no PR expert, but I think it is safe if they have the statement they gave. Despite of almost half of the US voting for Trump, there is almost no public Trump support from the entertainment and news media (except Fox and Breitbart, but almost everyone laugh at those) and I find that a bit tad weird. So, yes. I do believe it is safe to look and appear what the apparent majority think is righteous, considering that the opposite; a glimpse of trump support, is seen at the very least questionable. I don't think I should be pointing it out (because I think I worded it always clearly) but it is just an impression of mine, that one of the objectives of these group/public/editorial statements reggarding controversial policies is to tell everyone else that they are too in the "correct" side, and you don't see this from right-wing leaning people very much (not that I'm aware of, at least, and not of this scale) so I can't help to wonder if this is possibly a result of thinking with the masses. Obviously, it is possible and very likely that they're honest and they're not doing it for PR image towards the media (albeit the stance they take and the token people at the front, although, again, maybe I'm nitpicking). But I think it is ok to be weary of these popular displays these days, with such political tension in the US right now there is bound to be pressure to make a stance, specially if you have connections with any type of media. It could also might as well be both, as I discussed with someone else in here earlier. Politics with business + media can't be that black and white, IMO. |
Well, i disagree on the PR front because the media isn't their customer, it's both halves of the US. We've already seen two people in this very thread that said they are going to boycott their games from now on based on this statement. That's where the real risk come from.
Ah, ok. That's what you were referring to, sorry it's early over here and I didn't quite get it from your wording before.
Yes, it's definitevely always good to be sceptical of public displays of any kind, we agree on that. We just seem to disagree as to how beneficial this possibly could be for them to do. As for them putting the people that migrated from other countries to work at Insomniac at full front. I think that's ok in this case. It's relevant to the statement he was making and he specifically referred to them by name. They still had black/asian/people other ethnecities than white standing at the back, I just assumed those were people born in america. Of course it could aso jus be a ploy, but like I said I don't see how they would benefit from it.
As for why the majority of the media is not pro Trump, I'd think that has a lot to with the fact that a lot of his statements and policies just don't hold water when you analyze them carefully. A lot of his policies are based on outright lies, ignoring actual factual data, like crime and unemployment rates as well as immigration rates. Add to that how inconsistent, bordering on irratic he has behaved in the past and any self respecting media would feel compelled to point these inconsistencies out. Especially if it's about something as important as the president of the US. There might be other factors at play though. Like you said, it's not all black and white.
