Talk:United Breaks Guitars

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Untitled[edit]

Consequences to Employees That Broke the Guitar — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.12.71.85 (talk) 19:57, 26 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The Lonely Island[edit]

How is The Lonely Island related to this article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.1.94.73 (talk) 17:23, 8 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Fair and Balanced[edit]

Why does this line smack me as Fox News propaganda? "Fox News gave a fair and balanced report on the incident". Is that "Fair and Balanced" tag there because Fox News usually doesn't do fair and balanced, and notably this time it did, or is it there because it's part of a subliminal message to tell readers that "Fox News, it's fair and balanced!"? 91.89.161.0 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 14:04, 9 August 2009 (UTC).[reply]

Agreed, it seemed odd. Have removed it. Assuming this was a TV news story, does anyone know if there is an Internet version of it that can be linked to to confirm the fact in the article? I wouldn't know where to begin searching. GDallimore (Talk) 14:04, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your absolutly completely kidding right?[edit]

"Carroll said that it is difficult to take guitars onto flights.[citation needed]"

You need a citation? How about does pissing into the wind need a citation too?

Ask the next person you see who has a guitar, if they think it would be easy to carry on a guitar! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.139.164.63 (talk) 07:18, 17 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It was probably marked because it's our policy to have citations when we directly quote someone, regardless of whether they are saying something obvious or not. Gigs (talk) 20:42, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The "Stock price effect" Issue[edit]

This whole "stock price" thing should be qualified. Don't these comments accent a very minor aspect of the song and seriously overstate the effect?

Over the past year, United Airlines' stock has gone up 172%

Had David Carroll purchased United Airlines' stock the day the song was released on YouTube, it would have returned 281% by September 10, 2010. [1]

If the stock goes down again, will it be due to the song? -- Komowkwa (talk) 12:47, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I blanked the section, because there's no evidence to suggest positive, direct correlation. It was a slippery slope association by a journalist. There's no generally accepted consensus among reliable sources either, as evidenced by this. I think including that journalist's slippery slope is WP:UNDUE

So did Republic[edit]

In 1985 the folk musician Tom Paxton released One Million Lawyers and Other Disasters which included the song "Thank You Republic Airlines", recounting a similar incident; to quote the first line of the chorus: "Thank you, Republic Airlines, for breaking the neck on my guitar." I am not aware of an account anywhere, however, as to whether or how this particular incident was resolved, or whether he still performs the song in concert (he did the one time I saw him in concert, but that was in the late 80s or 90s at latest). MarkVolundNYC (talk) 07:38, 9 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Quoting Tagesschau[edit]

According to Germany law, German state news network Tagesschau isn't allowed to keep stories online forever. It is a complicated matter. That's the reason why reference 16 is now 404. Is there a policy on how to deal with this matter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.249.81.168 (talk) 15:11, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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