Comments on: BMW Drops Special Batman WSB Livery Out of Respect to Colorado Victims (News)

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:03:31 +0000

Bingo! free publicity. that is what these wankers are getting. respect? please! since when did the big business care about someone’s feelings? lawsuits and loss of profit: that is what they’re afraid of.

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By: kirk66

kirk66 — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:35:21 +0000

Run ‘em in Laguna

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By: Bud

Bud — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:34:22 +0000

So you get to be the arbiter of behavior in a free society? Sounds great!

Or maybe whoever is paid to make such decisions at BMW made one. In a free society, there should be nothing wrong with that.

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By: John Tuttle

John Tuttle — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 22:31:47 +0000

I like your characterization of the news media. On a day like this past Friday, the sum total of the information they had could be read in thirty seconds or less. Maybe a full minute, at most. But throughout the day, they struggle to think up different ways of saying to make it seem like they have more information. But they don’t. At the very end of that day, the information they had was not appreciably any more than they had early that morning. Still not more than a minute’s worth of information, which they hashed over and over and over throughout the day. The agenda that underlies it all, and always has, is singular: selling advertising.

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By: Provalogna

Provalogna — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 18:48:52 +0000

Yawn. Wake me when the commercial break is over. Slow news day.

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By: fast2win

fast2win — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 13:40:41 +0000

Sure would like to see the livery. I don’t think BMW would lose any customer’s. The draw back would be bad coverage from our news media, which are a bunch of rating craving whores

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By: Pedro J Diaz

Pedro J Diaz — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 03:37:11 +0000

In Reality, any big entity must consider any negative publicity. Everyone will see the event differently, but as the saying goes, the squeaky wheel is the one that gets greased. Hence, they must be careful to the extreme. I may run them, with some little sticker of love and peace on the side, but, they must do what is SAFEST for the company.

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By: ThinkReal

ThinkReal — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 02:35:34 +0000

They just don’t like to tempt fate – any crash in black would immediately be spun into another “batman” casualty. It was probably the movie promoters who asked BMW to put it away, they have enough publicity to handle for now.
Propriety 1: Relevance 0…but what has that ever had to do with it?

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By: Gary

Gary — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 00:36:06 +0000

“There is no place for ‘Pollitical Correctness’ in a free society.”

Not sure what “political correctness” and “free society” have to do with this issue at all.

When I am not feeling cynical I might think BMW removed the black out of respect to those who lost their lives, or who lost a loved one. If I am feeling more cynical, I’d believe BMW removed the black out of fear of backlash from paying customer sfor their sensitivity.

Obviously BMW is free to keep it black or change it. So freedom doesn’t have anything to do with it.

Political correctness has nothing to do with it. It’s simple good PR business.

So your statement does not make any sense at all, doesn’t it?

Try again …

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By: spidey

spidey — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 23:59:56 +0000

This act of terrorism will, unfortunately, be inexorably tied to this movie and those of us who still value lives over a marketing gimmick feel BMW is doing the right thing. The shootings happened 10 miles from where I live, and the senselessness has had a palpable effect on the people of this metro area, this state, and this country. There is zero reason, financial or otherwise, for BMW to become the first motorcycle manufacturer to actively point to a tragedy on the side of their race bikes 48 hours after the shootings occurred.

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