As he made clear yesterday he was only made aware of the allegations relating to Jimmy Savile when ITV published pre-broadcast publicity regarding their documentary in recent weeks," the spokesman said.
While Sony have not been able to advertise the film on 60 Minutes or other CBS broadcasts, publicity surrounding the network's decision does appear conveniently well-timed for the studio, which is pushing Truth as an Oscars contender.
According to Knight Ridder, "some conservative groups growled in advance over the episode", but most pre-broadcast publicity was directed at the outing.
The McCall campaign called Mr. Golisano's broadcast a publicity stunt.
Thus, filmmakers' private activities, which the age of absolute publicity broadcasts all the more blaringly, become ever less separate from their films.
Likewise, Vester Flanagan presumably chose to attack during a live broadcast because he wanted publicity; and he uploaded his own film because he wanted the world to see the murders through his eyes.
Rowan Atkinson has appeared in character as Bean in many normally factual television broadcasts, sometimes as a publicity stunt to promote a new episode, DVD or film.
But they have plenty of British-based aides, and lawyers, who will surely be monitoring the broadcast, which the BBC's publicity department says will allege that one of their London hotels, The Ritz, hasn't paid any corporation tax in 17 years.
And the same goes for every return to "reality": in a publicity spot widely broadcast in the US a decade or so ago, a group of ordinary people was shown enjoying a barbecue with country music and dancing, with the accompanying message: "Beef.
The publicity from this broadcast drew substantial numbers of visitors to the railway that summer, with more than 57,500 passengers carried, and this increase in revenue in turn enabled the railway to continue to improve its infrastructure and provide tourists with a better experience.
