On the Other Hand: AOL's Savvy Strategy or Designated Decoy?

Tummler

Tummler, Warc's regular columnist, comments on AOL's controversial recovery plan, following their planned resurrection as an independent entity on 9th December.

On the Other Hand: AOL's Savvy Strategy or Designated Decoy?

Tummler

Here's a cautionary tale from the rusting Remington of your Catskills correspondent that wowed 'em in Downsville N.Y. Whether it'll play as well at 770 Broadway or in the candy-floss canyons of Madison Avenue, you, revered reader, shall judge.

Parked outside your scribe's favorite Downsville watering hole (O'Flaherty's Hawaiian Bar and Grill) was a police patrol car. Following O'Flaherty's last call the officer noticed a man leaving the bar so intoxicated he could barely walk.

Stumbling round the parking lot, the drunk tried his keys on five different vehicles...

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