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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Jersey Jazzman: StudentsFirst: Astroturfing Movie Reviewers

Jersey Jazzman: StudentsFirst: Astroturfing Movie Reviewers:


StudentsFirst: Astroturfing Movie Reviewers

When Leonie Haimson sent this tweet, at first I thought she was joking:
Stealing Schools = Won't Back Down (click Picture)Students first sending staff to write reviews to try to save stinker film #wbd on rotten tomatoeshttp://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wont_back_down_2012/reviews/#type=user 
StudentsFirst is, of course, Michelle Rhee's corporate reform shop, famous for their astroturfing. "#wbd" is Won't Back Down, a piece of anti-union propaganda disguised as a movie; it's getting trashed by the critics.

Sure enough, SF is now using Eli Broad and David Tepper's money to pay their staff to write glowing reviews and put them on the Rotten Tomatoes website: