{"id":12490,"date":"2019-04-09T15:04:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T03:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/?p=12490"},"modified":"2019-04-09T15:04:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T03:04:04","slug":"making-your-point-in-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/2019\/04\/09\/making-your-point-in-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Your Point in Public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fake news saturates a billion social media feeds. Questionable claims and outright lies flash across screens, disappearing into the digital mist before they can be challenged.\u00a0\u00a0 The peddlers of untruth aim to sway your thinking without being held accountable. People are being fed misinformation, and there\u2019s nothing anyone can do about it &#8230;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Or is there?\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The power of paper, paste and a single-minded message.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/0800phantom.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=8b2d081d04a078bd5929a7e08&amp;id=1d953397df&amp;e=0843780ca4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Led By Donkeys<\/a> is a movement started by four Brits who were disturbed at the way misleading claims had swayed the Brexit vote. They collected evidence of politicians\u2019 duplicity and foolishness in the form of tweets and quotes. Then they plastered these damning words on street-level billboards across the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Some prize specimens:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no plan for no deal, because we\u2019re going to get a great deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Boris Johnson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cI believe it is clearly in our national interest to remain a member of the EU.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Theresa May<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThe day after we leave, we hold all the cards and we can choose the path we want.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Michael Gove<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/0800phantom.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=8b2d081d04a078bd5929a7e08&amp;id=635c614b6a&amp;e=0843780ca4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So why did Lions Led By Donkeys choose posters to make their point? When you print your message and paste it up for all to see, you\u2019re being up-front with the public. As one of the activists said, \u201cDoing something that is real and out on the streets has really resonated with people.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cSomething real and out on the streets.\u201d That\u2019s the power of street posters.<\/p>\n<p><em>If you have a strong point to make, a brand that should be more famous, or an event that really deserves attention, you belong in the street. <u>Call Phantom Billstickers<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fake news saturates a billion social media feeds. Questionable claims and outright lies flash across screens, disappearing into the digital mist before they can be challenged.\u00a0\u00a0 The peddlers of untruth aim to sway your thinking without being held accountable. People are being fed misinformation, and there\u2019s nothing anyone can do about it &#8230;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Or is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}