{"id":341,"date":"2007-02-16T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/2007\/02\/16\/flog-the-latest-trend\/"},"modified":"2007-02-16T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T15:45:00","slug":"flog-the-latest-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/?p=341","title":{"rendered":"Flog , The Latest Trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new trend in the USA is Flogs <\/p>\n<p>Flogs are fake blogs , that companies create to advertise something , for example<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/publications.mediapost.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.san&#038;s=49505&#038;Nid=24192&#038;p=354327\">MediaPost<\/a><br \/>\nwrite about Walmart Flog attempt <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A pro-Wal-Mart blog called &#8220;Wal-Marting Across America,&#8221; ostensibly launched by a pair of average Americans chronicling their cross-country travels in an RV and lodging in Wal-Mart parking lots, has been reduced to a farewell entry. One of its two contributors was revealed to be Jim Thresher, a staff photographer for The Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>The blog, launched Sept. 27, was profiled in this week&#8217;s issue of BusinessWeek, which exposed the site as a promotional tactic engineered by Working Families for Wal-Mart (WFWM), an organization launched by Wal-Mart&#8217;s public relations firm Edelman. WFWM paid for the RV and all travel expenses, rerouted the trip&#8217;s original plan, and plastered a logo on the RV&#8217;s side. Though a banner ad announced WFWM sponsored the site, it did not divulge Wal-Mart paid for the couple&#8217;s RV, gas, food and other expenses. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Let hope we don&#8217;t Import that Trend ( as we always do , we are eager to import all bad trends ) or  are they already here ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new trend in the USA is Flogs Flogs are fake blogs , that companies create to advertise something , for example MediaPost write about Walmart Flog attempt A pro-Wal-Mart blog called &#8220;Wal-Marting Across America,&#8221; ostensibly launched by a pair of average Americans chronicling their cross-country travels in an RV and lodging in Wal-Mart parking &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/?p=341\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Flog , The Latest Trend<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,7,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}