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You can't spell Oprah without PR
Published Tuesday, September 14, 2004 by seanlmccarthy | E-mail this post
Doesn't this make me look like such the philanthropist?
Oprah may have gotten all of the good press for giving away 276 cars to her studio audience Monday. But Oprah didn't give away the cars. Pontiac did. Now that's what we call product placement. The Motley Fool managed to weigh in on this today.
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