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Amazon Reviews and The Wisdom of the Mob
January 23, 2013 | 3:33 pm
By Brian Howard
It’s official. The old trope “There’s no such thing as bad press” can be retired. For good.
Witness the campaign against Randall Sullivan’s Michael Jackson bio Untouchable: The Strange Life and Tragic Death of Michael Jackson. As reported in The New York Times, Sullivan’s book focuses on the superstar’s last years and, despite being characterized as a generally sympathetic look at Jackson, has come under siege by a group of fans who take issue with some of the book’s statements. And so they launched a flotilla of mostly anonymous one-star reviews seemingly aimed at not just discrediting the book, but killing it.
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