Sentences with phrase «than a media stunt»

This is nothing than a media stunt by her and whatever organization she represents.

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Even the pieces for which he won his 2004 National Magazine Award were based more on a p.r. stunt than on any sharp insights: At a press briefing in Doha, Qatar, Wolff stood up and asked General Vincent Brooks why it was worth the media's time to show up for such highly orchestrated, unnewsworthy events.

His little send - energy - executives - to - jail stunt got him far more media attention than his remarks otherwise warranted; the latter a cause that is probably more dear to him than the carbon taxes he advocates.

Instead, the claims had come from the Caitlin mission to the Arctic — a PR and media stunt designed to highlight the shrinking of the Arctic — and from the Global Humanitarian Forum's crude estimate of the effects of climate on poorer parts of the world that had emphasised climate, rather than lack of wealth, as the fundamental in the condition of the world's poor.

Their attacks on power — ridiculous, childish publicity stunts — are charades, or rituals, intended to convince those who play them out more than the public, that they really are in opposition, and that there isn't a revolving door between NGOs, government, media, and big business.

Giving some delusional nutbag like Monckton or Plimer the time of day seems a dreadful misuse of the emotional and intellectual energies of rational, intelligent and informed people, who really ought to be out there making sure we get policy right rather than doing media stunts.