Wool Over My Eyes
October 5th, 2007 by FuzzAfter my show, yesterday, I received a call from a booking agent looking to book a young woman to speak about breast cancer. The 25-year-old woman, Lindsay Avner, underwent a double mastectomy as a preventative way of making sure that she didn’t suffer from the same disease that killed her grandmother and great grandmother, and that her mother developed when Lindsay was just 12 years old.
I said, “sure, I’ll do the interview.” I mean, why not, right? She’s got a good story and a good message, so I’ll put her on the air and let her talk about breast cancer awareness.
Then I received an e-mail regarding the details of the call in. In it was a link that the agent had mentioned in her phone call, pink-promise.com. I clicked on the link and it forwarded me to Vanilleroyale.com (a liqueur website). Figuring it was a mistake, I e-mailed the rep back to ask her for the real web address. She replied, “no, that’s it, the information is in there.”
The agent had mentioned nothing of the beverage in the initial phone call, and she was obviously hoping that I wouldn’t do any research. Unfortunately for her, I get up pretty early in the morning… so she’d have to get up even earlier to pull the wool over my eyes.
The part that I feel the worst about is that Lindsay Avner is being pimped out by a booze company in the guise of promoting breast cancer awareness. I snooped through the liqueur website and found the link to BeBrightPink.com, which is really the website that contains all of the information relating to breast cancer.
Shame on the liqueur company and the booking agent for being deceptive. That’s all I’m sayin’. If Lindsay ever wants to do an interview promoting Be Bright Pink, I’m all about it, but I’ll never take another call from the booking agent involved with this. That’s for damn sure.
October 5th, 2007 at 7:26 am
That is freakin’ terrible! Glad you get up early.
October 5th, 2007 at 8:04 am
Fuzz, you should remove those go-to liquer URLs because you are really just giving them what they want, web traffic.
Nice investigatory work, also!
October 5th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
[...] the chick that tried to hock liqueur on my radio station by way of “breast cancer awareness” decides not even to contest the bullshit website. [...]