Martin Stower Wrote:
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> Origyptian Wrote:
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> > It's very simple to see that the team was a
> tiny
> > enterprise that got itself into a huge
> > communication project. Two maverick
> investigators
> > and a fledgling filmmaker trying to manage
> world
> > communication of the event. It's not rocket
> > surgery to see that Höfer (or whoever else was
> > involved in press releases), with negligible,
> if
> > any, prior training in hieroglyphics, certainly
> > may have overextended himself, feverishly
> writing
> > copy for various media venues, and at least
> once
> > confused the phyle glyphs at the far end of the
> > chamber, which Görlitz likely recognizes as
> being
> > the tag line to a cartouche hidden behind the
> > joint, as Khufu's cartouche. This mistake
> clearly
> > did indeed happen at least in that one web
> report
> > at news.com.au.
> >
> > But for that understandable error to be
> > interpreted as a deliberate coordinated attempt
> by
> > Höfer, et al. - endorsed by the investigators
> -
> > to lead the public to believe that the real
> Khufu
> > cartouche was sampled and that this somehow is
> an
> > example of a scheming team caught in a gotcha
> > contradiction due to a "bungling criminal liar"
> at
> > the helm is a very naive interpretation of how
> > that kind of marcom mistake happens. Nothing
> > devious about it.
>
> And here we have the ludicrous red herring of
> “prior training in hieroglyphics”—as if
> Höfer hadn’t shown in his preview that
> he knew perfectly well what a cartouche is and
> knew which one is Khufu’s. (As far as I can
> tell, the frames in the preview showing the
> cartouche are lifted from the film in which Houdin
> appears. Femano hasn’t seen the preview, but
> this doesn’t stop his ego telling him that he
> “knows better”.)
>
> And then we have the pure fantasy of Höfer
> “feverishly writing copy for various media
> venues”. Really? Höfer used the same copy for
> YouTube and Indiegogo—and if Femano alleges that
> Höfer wrote bespoke pieces “for various media
> venues”, then he should specify which,
> shouldn’t he? Sensible people do what Höfer
> did: write one piece of copy and reuse it. Femano
> even mentions press releases. Does he not know
> what a press release is?
>
> And now (pass the sick bag) it’s not scapegoat
> Höfer, but poor, feverish, overworked Höfer.
> Yeah, poor Höfer, actively soliciting donations
> on a false prospectus. He was tired. He made
> mistakes: understandable errors. He didn’t mean
> it, honest, gov.
>
> Funny how Femano is markedly more lenient to those
> he sees as useful to his own agenda.
>
> M.

YOU were the one that brought Höfer into this discussion. You needed him as your scapegoat to cover your "wildly contradictory: they sampled the cartouche" allegation.




Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 22-May-16 00:53 by Origyptian.