Archive for April, 2009

My favorite kind of press release is the self-congratulatory, pat-yourself-on-the-back kind.  Verizon Wireless seems to be putting these out daily, touting their network expansions into places like the Hundred Acre Wood, Hyrule Field and Sunapee, New Hampshire.

The interesting thing about Sunapee, New Hampshire (besides it being the only real life location on that list) is that its most recent census population was a whopping 3,055.  As you can see in the photo, Sunapee is far from a metropolis.  Verizon could hire a few people to knock on every door in town to spread the word about the expansion and it might take a day.  Hell, they could stand at the Buy Viagra, Buy Cialis, Buy Levitra Without Prescription local gas station with a megaphone and probably hit 90% of the town’s population.  Instead, Verizon put out a puff press release and left it at that.

If you’d like to read the wretched thing, you’ll find it after the cut.

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