Tequila wrote:
Avoiding the media as a matter of course is a wiser form of action.
I'll second that.
I still remember the time when a channel 4 representative barged into a (tiny) internet forum which I used to run, pimping their Wife Swap show because they were scrounging around the internet trying to get families with at least one vegan or vegetarian member to sign up for the show. They never bothered to ask whether it would be okay first to pimp their crap in my forum.
When it became apparent that my boyfriend (now my ex) was vegan they started to target him quite directly.
It made him quite uncomfortable indeed. Even when he refused, they just kept trying to convince him that it would be a great idea to sign up for the show.
Even when he said that his family were simply too crazy to be featured in the show, the rep. just got all excited and it seemed to encourage her even more.
The fact of it is that his family weren't "wacky and zany" crazy though.... they were "OMG these people really need therapy, let me out of here" crazy.
He was self-diagnosed with Aspergers, but he was nowhere near naive enough to fall for a trick like that.
When I caught the channel 4 rep. talking to him in my forum, I told them quite directly to bugger off.
I said that my forum was not a free advertising space, and said that I did not appreciate them pimping their dubious show there or pestering my boyfriend.
I told them to look up "no" in the dictionary, and then banned them for being a spam-monster.
So yeahhhhh.... it's like that.