A message board for investors in Premier Exhibitions reveals mounting panic prior to ABC’s 20/20 piece, to be aired tonight.
Here’s one fascinating message. The “woman in Durham” is our very own Sarah, a dynamo who is largely responsible for bringing together people all over the country to voice their objections to the plastination shows.
Knobs,
…I do not know what the 20/20 story will include, therefore I cannot give any sort of impact assessment. What I will say is, the NY Times story a couple years ago was a hack job, and it didn’t even include any factual evidence to say the bodies PRXI had obtained from the Dalian Medical University were an issue. Lotsa assumptions, suppositions, garbage about organ trafficking and human rights violations and pictures from some meat shop.
I also get the feeling the 20/20 story was most likely prompted by those that have taken it upon themselves to build websites and petitions and make all kinds of moral judgements and assumptions on behalf of everyone else. The first bits of leaking information came from the woman in Durham who picketed the exhibit there and took it upon herself to link up with all the other individuals across the country who have voiced their opposition to the exhibit.
I assume PRXI was interviewed for the story. How could they not when on the face of it the story appears to revolve around our exhibit. Of course, editting can be done to skew the story in whatever manner the reporter wants.
Mr Geller’s response to the NY Times chop job:
http://www.prxi.com/pdf/nytimes.pdfNo doubt, the same applies now and I’d expect the response to be exactly the same should 20/20 go the same route.
Amigo Mike
Another poster wrote optimistically that the investigation would quickly fade from people’s minds, and that “perception” — not reality — was what Premier should focus on in defending itself.
But they are, I believe, sadly behind the power curve on this one. That “woman in Durham” has already helped get legislation presented in California regulating plastination exhibits — and much more is to come.