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> Real estate bros… directed news outlets to criticise the practice. What evidence do you have for this? It sounds like conspiracy thinking to me.
by jdlshore 3y ago
> Real estate bros… directed news outlets to criticise the practice.
What evidence do you have for this? It sounds like conspiracy thinking to me.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y agohttp://paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html I've seen the term "submarine article" used to describe PR-encouraged articles. Practically, they're not "directing" news outlets but they are "informing" them in likely biased ways.
- gumballindie 3y agoFrom the blog post: "Our startup spent its entire marketing budget on PR: at a time when we were assembling our own computers to save money, we were paying a PR firm $16,000 a month." Wondering how much real estate bros are paying to promote the archaic, regressive, idea of working on site.
- jdlshore 3y agoThat is not evidence for this particular claim.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y agoI would agree if I assumed the story told in the post to be false. It is a person’s written confession of having hired such a firm to, to be charitable, inform journalists of an up-and-coming enterprise. The idea that it’s not evidence of a lack of so called conspiracy thinking is not so obvious. It seems like there’s an industry that’s ready to exactly serve this purpose of spreading a story.