Comments on: Why can't Yahoo control its image like Angelina Jolie?

Much of Yahoo's troubles stem from an inability to project the right image to the outside world.

[Dylan_Wisor]

Erm... what?

[SebDavies]

'Here's a company that seems to enjoy more barbs than British teeth'

shut up, we have free healthcare here in the UK, including dentist!

[ChrisMatyszczyk]

SebDavies,

Please don't get me wrong. I don't condone the barbs. But in the US, there are so very many biting comments about the color and alignment of British teeth.

Chris

[Joel_Be]

I thought the comment "'Here's a company that seems to enjoy more barbs than British teeth" was completely uncalled for and just lowered the tone of an already stretched and contrived article.

Americans (the ones that live in the USA) tend to have great looking teeth because veneers are more widely used, even though they come with more dental problems and recurring dental bills. In the UK veneers are seen as cosmetic dentistry and are unlikely to be available on the NHS. Instead, UK dentists focus on fixing the underlying problems rather than superficial results. (Which says a lot about the US...!)

[aztec92154]

Free healthcare and dentist?

"Six percent of those questioned in a survey of 5,000 patients admitted they had resorted to self-treatment using pliers and glue, the UK's Press Association reported."

NHS includes dentist?

"But more than three-quarters of those polled said they had been forced to pay for private treatment because they had been unable to find an NHS dentist... One respondent in Lancashire, northern England, claimed to have extracted 14 of their own teeth with a pair of pliers. Others said they had fixed broken crowns using glue to avoid costly dental work. Where NHS dental services are available, people are happy with the quality of treatment provided but many find the NHS fee system confusing and expensive" -

"Brits resort to pulling own teeth" - CNN Article
SOURCE: http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/10/15/england.dentists/index.html

[mRfung]

I read the whole thing and also ended up wondering what exactly it is i just read. Something about two things that barely relate...barely...

[drpr]

I'm not seeing a well-made connection between Jolie and Yahoo. It's as if you were dared to find a way to incorporate Jolie into your column and this is how you chose to do it.

[dwinks]

I agree, this had to be one of the worst, most contrived, and flaccid articles I have ever read in my entire life. There is no more of a relationship between Jolie and Yahoo as there is with any other of the more than six billion people on this planet.

If you want to write an article about Jolie, fine. If you want to write an article about Yahoo, that is fine as well. But please, don't write such utter garbage as this to basically "trick" people into reading it by tossing in a name that makes people click on the article just to find out what the heck someone is talking about. Which in this case, is nearly incoherent babbling.

I want the last 10 minutes of my life back!

[Rants&Raves]

dwinks: It took you 10 minutes to read a few lines !?

[Mr. Dee]

When Steve 'Tom Cruise' Ballmer stop saying its not gonna acquire the Company.

[malbeau]

Short answer to the question: when Yahoo's spokesperson has the same body dimensions as Jolie.

Now can we have some serious journalism for once?

[gdod25]

Their name is Yahoo. What kind of image can a bunch of yahoo's have!

[kbw62]

...and it is all a lie!!!! ......her HUMANATARIAN , mother earth image...whata joke. no class ..trashy actress, who uses her looks and innocent kids to get what she wants.
her and her big donation -making,- to -your- own -charity/pay- yourself- back- in -your -kids- names- tax write off...DO GOODING.
i would worry about all that "controlling interest"... she is buying up ,in those poor third world countries...with all her previous mental instabilities..she can RAISE a whole new REGIME.