"Kim" > wrote in message
...
> I often wonder, as do my friends, why Americans look to someone like
> Martha Stewart to instruct them about lifestyle fashions and interior
> decorating.
>
> Has it ever dawned on this woman's devotees that she is purely and
> simply an entrepreneural businesswoman who has marketed herself very
> well? Now, I have no quarrel with this method of making money, but
> surely one would have to be very gullible to hang on her every word
> about what cushions are de rigeur, what dinner napkins to use when
> entertaining the Top Brass, and so on .....
>
> That M.S. committed fraud and is now really having one big bitch about
> how petty people are about her conviction and sentence is very very
> funny. Now that her bubble has well and truly burst, how many people
> will return to kneel at the altar of her somewhat flimsy and overtly
> commercial propaganda about how you all should decorate your homes,
> select the towels, choose the dinner service, etc. etc.
>
> Ah well, as they say, it takes all sorts .....
>
> Cheers

Martha is a marketing genius. She basically has suckered in all her 'fans'
that actually went out to buy more of her product once she was sentenced
(and her stock apparently) than she could have hoped for.
I laughed at the media circus that occurred at the courthouse when she was
sentenced. The rank-and-file newspeople (read as cameramen, equipment
managers, etc.) couldn't care less as to what was happening-but hey, the
media has to report this (read as 'we have to keep our jobs').
The average person would have gone to jail for a year if this happened to
them-only $$$ and media attention cut it short for Martha-that and all her
'fans'-people she has never met and couldn't give a rats-ass about, sending
in letters pleading for leniency for Martha.