{"id":1571,"date":"2009-08-27T00:02:51","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T06:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/?p=1571"},"modified":"2009-08-27T00:02:51","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T06:02:51","slug":"hooray-for-the-marketing-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2009\/08\/27\/hooray-for-the-marketing-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Hooray for the marketing department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, Microsoft is twisting itself into corporate pretzels (well, not really) to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13860_3-10317763-56.html\">apologize<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13860_3-10317744-56.html\">a piece of international marketing<\/a>.  Their original web site promoted a product with this photo:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/q3-09\/burchobomb1.jpg\" alt=\"Microsoft - U.S. edition\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But when they went to promote the same thing in Poland, they photoshopped one of the people in the picture <em>ever<\/em> so slightly:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/q3-09\/burchobomb2.jpg\" alt=\"Microsoft - Polish edition\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But while everyone&#8217;s up in arms about <em>that<\/em> change, no one&#8217;s even <em>noticed<\/em> this version for yet another foreign market:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/q3-09\/burchobomb3.jpg\" alt=\"Microsoft - Fiddygibber edition\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is diabolical.  Their photo editing is <em>seamless!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Microsoft is twisting itself into corporate pretzels (well, not really) to apologize for a piece of international marketing. Their original web site promoted a product with this photo: But when they went to promote the same thing in Poland, they photoshopped one of the people in the picture ever so slightly: But while everyone&#8217;s up in arms about that change, no one&#8217;s even noticed this version for yet another foreign market: This is diabolical. Their photo editing is seamless!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-1571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-stuff","tag-jccshow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}