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[Carrie McLaren <carrie AT stayfreemagazine.org>]

New Stay Free! in stores next month. Order in advance from:
http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/order.html

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Hello,

Just wanted to let people know that the 5th annual Schmio Awards
are happening next week. Every year, a group of academics,
activists, and wiseguys take to the stage to "honor" the
worst ads of the year. Once again, the lineup includes
some of our favorite pundits:

Mark Crispin Miller (author of the forthcoming BUSH DYSLEXICON,
  which yours truly worked on and will say more about later)
Bob McChesney (Rich Media, Poor Democracy)
Neil Postman (Amusing Ourselves to Death, Technopoly, etc.)
Barbara Ehrenreich
Joe Conason (NY Observer, Salon)
Leslie Savan (longtime Village Voice ad critic)
Janine Jackson (FAIR)
& others


April 12 - 7 p.m.
Sakland Auditorium in the Kriser Dental Center
1st Avenue & East 24th Street, NYU
$10 general / $4 with student ID
For tickets, call 212-998-5635
(last years' event sold out)


STAY FREE! will hopefully have a table again this year so if
you come, by all means say "hi."

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Here are a few items that appeared in the last issue of the
magazine (they make more sense in print but here you go):


A very sad tale about tobacco and bunnies:
http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/archives/17/bunnies.html

SF! asks readers: Ever Been Fired?
http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/archives/17/fired.html


And this list of people who are not doing it money:

"We're not doing this to make money."
--David Hering, board member of Alwyn Court, a landmark apartment building
in Manhattan wrapped in a six-story advertisement for FamilyWonder.com.
(New York Times, 4/16/00)

"I'm not in this for money."
--Barrie Dolnick, author of The Executive Mystic, a former ad man, now a
psychic and paid consultant who helps CEOs channel their "intuitive power."
(CNNfn, 3/3/98)

"I'm not doing it for the money."
--Maurice Thompson, cohead of Warburg's equity capital markets, who is said
to have received over $6 million upon retiring at age 36. (Financial Times,
2/15/95)

"I'm not in this for the money."
-- Benno Schmidt, on his decision to quit as president of Yale University
to head Edison Schools. Edison is the latest for-profit "educational"
venture from Chris Whittle, the founder of Channel One. Edison raised over
$100 million in capital upon going public. (60 Minutes, 11/14/99)

"I didn't go into DrKoop.com to make money. I did it to change the way that
medicine is practiced."
-- Former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Koop, who, as the chairman and major
shareholder in DrKoop.com, holds more than $47 million in stock as of this
writing. Of DrKoop.com's several marketing alliances, its deal with
Quintiles Transnational Corp. is typical: DrKoop.com declared Quintiles
"the world's leading clinical organization" in exchange for payment for
each person enrolled in a clinical trial from the site. (New York Times,
9/4/99)

"These are people who are not doing it for the money but because they enjoy
communicating with foreigners."
--Suzanne Hall, vice president of marketing for Jet Vacations, on the
customers of its "Cafe Couette" bed-and-breakfast program. (Tour & Travel
News, 4/29/91)
"I don't want to sound like the movie guy who says he's in it for the art,
but I'm not in this for the money."

-- Clint Eastwood on building a private golf course. Due open in late
spring, Tehama Golf Club is taking members at $135,000 each. Eastwood is
predicted to rake in about $45 million this year from Tehama's 300
memberships. The golf course, which will be among two dozen already in the
area, threatens to destroy one of the last remaining coastal paradises and
its fragile water supply. (Wall Street Journal, 2/10/00)

"We're not doing it for the money."
-- Shelley Archambeau, Blockbuster's senior VP of E-commerce, on
Blockbuster's alliance with America Online. Over the next three years, AOL
will invest $80 million in the retailer's Web site and the two companies
will promote each other in stores. (Billboard, 11/13/99)

"If you looked at these people at the end of the show, you could tell it
was less about the money than it was about the relationship."
-- Mike Darnell, a Fox executive regarding his show Who Wants to Marry a
Millionaire? (New York Times, 2/17/00)

"I'm not in this for the money. This is all about building jobs... "
-- Nick Grouf, Chair & CEO of PeoplePC, who launched his company with 50
employees and $65 million in venture capital. Grouf sold his previous
business, Firefly, to Microsoft for at least $30 million . . . all in an
attempt to "democratize technology." (San Francisco Chronicle, 2/5/00)

"I never cared about money . . . it's just a byproduct."
-- Billionaire and "leveraged buyout king" Ted Forstmann. Forstman's
Gulfstream Aerospace, sells top-of-the-line jets to executives for $40
million a piece. (CNN Business Unusual, 4/25/98)

"We're not doing it for the money."
-- Broadcom Corp co-founder Henry Samueli on his company's initial public
offering. After the IPO, the shares owned by Samueli and cofounder Henry
Nicholas were worth a total of $1.2 billion. (Orange County Register,
5/19/98)

HONORABLE MENTION
"Our photographs aim at giving back a human face to the prisoners. Although
there is a Benetton logo, it is not about selling products." Unnamed
Benetton spokesperson (Reuters, 2/14/00)


If any billionaires not doing it for the money are reading this, please
feel free to send a check to: Stay Free!, P.O. Box 306 Prince Street
Station, New York, NY 10012. Thank you.