OFF: Star Wars Trailer

[Paul Mather]

On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Chris Baker wrote:

=> John Swartz writes
=>
=> > The trailer for the upcoming (Episode 1) Star Wars movie was shown on my
=> local news broadcast last night.
=>
=> I figured that only happened here, on account of the proximity of Lucas'
=> outfit to San Francisco...pretty amazing that "news" outlets are falling all
=> over themselves for the honor of pimping his product.

We got it on our local (SW VA) late news yesterday, too.  But I figured
that was just because it was the Fox 21/27 10pm news, and the film is by
20th Century Fox.  I also thought it was a little off that this was
presented as a "news item" rather than just some free promo air time.

Cheers,

Paul.

e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu

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