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Front page article including a lengthy interview with Kenneth whose explanation of why the decision was made would indeed bring a tear to the eye of a Sphinx. |
Friday, March 06, 2015
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I don't know about any Egyptian
historical monuments but I'd bet
his father is crying for sure
I'd bet Gunther is too....
I think it's also pretty awful that the elephant employees found out by hearing it on the news....
No worse than when they dumped
the whole company of performers
& crew of "Barnum's Kaleidoscape"
between shows on the last day of
peformances for the year in NYC
even though all had contracts
for the following season or so
they believed (really classy)
Read the front page of the Gainesville (FL) Sun with it's headline "Painting Elephant won't be at art show" about how this hit Patti Zerbini and her elephant, with death threats against her and Luke, no doubt spurred and emboldened by the RBBB announcement. You all are right -- Gunther and Irvin are no doubt spinning in their graves
The Nazis with only 10 or 12 % of the population bulldozed their way into power because people were afraid to confront them. This is about the same thing, letting crackpots make policy for everyone else. Too bad Ringling is acting like cowards, oh they claim it is a financial thing but even so it's going to make it hard on smaller shows. Now is the time for fans to get behind them and give their support. Or stand back and watch Animal Activists get THEIR way. When you only have plastic shoes to buy remember your silence caused it. Write a letter to Ringling and tell them ..I will not go see your show...I am going to a show that has elephants.
So, whose bright idea was it to abandon the PR narrative to the activists. Public perception is now that PETA was right all along. Who hands a match and a gas can to a pyromaniac and then walks away convinced that it will end well. Years from now, this will be studied as a textbook example of how to bungle a PR campaign.
Remember when His Eminence, John Ringling North, took it upon himself to sound the death knell for tented circuses, in 1956, just because he couldn't manage his own. Many in the public thought if it was Ringling losing the Big Top, all circuses lost theirs, too. Even then, the public thought circus was Ringling everything, and lamented a permanent loss of tradition. But the Beatty show re-organized and closed as the last railroad show under canvas, and came out the next season with many other shows with Big Tops. The Feld thing has capitulated. No other show should do so. No decision coming from something still titled "Ringling" should dictate any decision for circus people who intend to uphold circus principles.
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