Pink Ribbon Day
Posted on October 11, 2006 at 10:36pm | 1 comment
It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month and one of my female staff persuaded me that the Kalgoorlie Miner masthead should be pink on the big day, Pink Ribbon Day (October 23).
We organised a photo of the general manager Mandy Howlett and myself to explain what it’s all about. It’s a worthy cause, so why not!? It’s one way of promoting information.
Tags: Kalgoorlie, PR, war
For an interesting twist on the topic of the “pinking” of breast cancer awareness, there are three articles I link to from my website, http://www.honestmedicine.typepad.com, that I think you might like to read.
To access these three articles, please go to the links on the left side of my site, and look under “articles of importance.”
1)”Welcome to Cancerland: A Mammogram Leads to a Cult of Pink Kitsch,” by Barbara Ehrenreich. A classic.
2)”Chemo Concession” (contains some surprising information about the chemotherapy industry)
3) “Vaccine Against Cancer,” about a really interesting cancer treatment being used by a doctor in Germany.
All three articles will give you another perspective on the “think pink” phenomenon. I hope you will find them informative. Thanks very much for giving them a look!
Sincerely,
Julia Schopick
http://www.honestmedicine.typepad.com