The Spinner of Facts, Truth, and Lies

When it comes to handling PR crisis situations, he's the guy they call to fix them all. He is called the Master of Spin as he knows how to twist sentences and words such that he is not outright telling a lie neither is he telling the truth or facts. That's his job. To dispel the chaos coming from controversies and scandals. His name is Michael Sitrick.

Michael Sitrick, 71, is a public relations puppet master who has pulled the strings behind some of the biggest stories in media. Clients in that category have included Roy Disney during the ouster of Michael Eisner as CEO of the entertainment company; Food Lion, a grocery chain, during its fight against an ABC report about unsafe food-handling practices; Metabolife, accused of lying to the Food and Drug Administration about how ephedra can kill you; Patricia Dunn, during the Hewlett-Packard spying scandal; Lee Iacocca, during his life as Lee Iacocca; the Los Angeles Catholic archdiocese during the abuse cover-up scandal; American Apparel when it cut ties with creepy founder Dov Charney; R. Kelly, although not recently; and Harvey Weinstein.

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The reason HyperCard didn't set the world on fire was simple: it didn't scale up very well. If you tried to build something ambitious with it, it just got slower and slower.
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Imagine if HyperCard were combined with the Gopher protocol back in the day to download cards or stacks from remote locations like we do web pages today. Perhaps LOL Cats might have evolved decades earlier in a 1-bit Floyd–Steinberg dithered form.
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You're right; corrected to world wide web. I was on Compuserve every day back then and thought it was wonderful. Except for the expense. Not only did we pay for the service, but we racked up hundreds of dollars every month in long-distance connection charges!
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HyperCard was shown to everyone at IBM's PC laboratory. We were warned at this was the future of low end computing. It caused us to contract with Microsoft to design O/S2.
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"before the Internet" ... Except 1988 saw the release of the Morris Internet Worm, a sophisticated piece of malware that used multiple methods of propagation to spread to a variety of machines rather than being designed for one specific machine.
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Always wondered why Apple didn't build the Newton around Hypercard; would have had lots of ready-to-use stacks, plus ability for users to develop their own.
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