Aug
20
FedEx on Good Morning America
ABC News recently visited Jose, the FedEx Furniture Guy, for a spot to be aired on Good Morning America next week. The ‘Cribs’ style segment will feature the new ‘FedEx Furniture Lifestyle’ that Jose has made so popular.
The Good Morning American segment is only one of several television appearances Jose has made in the past few weeks. He has made the rounds of all the major (and minor) news outlets including CNN, CNBC, NBC, CBS, and ABC. In total, over one hour of national programming in the past month has been dedicated to his furnishings and his plight and fight to keep his website up. Jose was contacted by Riverston Publishing about the possibility of writing a book about his adventure and a museum has offered to diplay his ‘art’ in their collection. Jose has been a busy boy!
Web traffic has been significant. Over 500,000 unique Internet users who have visited his site and/or blog. Thousands of people have emailed him, and hundreds have left comments on his website. Icerocket indicates that over 597 bloggers have written about FedEx Furniture. Some of the bloggers are mad angry (actually more surprised than angry) that he has received so much attention, others suspect that we made him up and many more thought the stunt was funny. Interestingly, many folks in the PR business want the entire story to go away. Don’t worry, it will. But clearly FedEx could have been on the good side of this 15 60 minutes of fame – instead of playing the villian…
First, dogs get mad, people get angry. It’s more than, not over. Over is spatial.
And, I’m not angry that he has received so much attention – no where on my post did I say I was angry about the attention the story is receiving. It does amaze me that it is getting so much attention, though, when it is a story that is a bumper, those last 20 seconds in a newscast that are cutesy, like the coyote with his head stuck in the pickle jar.
Comment by Jeremy Pepper — August 20, 2005 @ 7:30 pm
First, dogs get mad, people get angry. It’s more than, not over. Over is spatial.
And, I’m not angry that he has received so much attention – no where on my post did I say I was angry about the attention the story is receiving. It does amaze me that it is getting so much attention, though, when it is a story that is a bumper, those last 20 seconds in a newscast that are cutesy, like the coyote with his head stuck in the pickle jar.
Comment by Jeremy Pepper — August 20, 2005 @ 7:30 pm
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