{"id":2119,"date":"2006-01-21T17:09:25","date_gmt":"2006-01-21T17:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2119"},"modified":"2006-01-21T17:09:25","modified_gmt":"2006-01-21T17:09:25","slug":"general_motors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2119","title":{"rendered":"General Motors Death Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetruthaboutcars.com\/content\/1137687108681622930\/index.php\">Robert Farago<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>It&rsquo;s increasingly obvious that this necessary (not to say inevitable) &ldquo;restructuring&rdquo; will have to wait until GM goes under. The General&rsquo;s generals made that clear when they reacted to Turnaround King Jerry York&rsquo;s suggestion that GM should deep-six or sell their Saab and Hummer brands. GM execs dismissed the idea with the PR equivalent of a derisive snort. Marketing Maven Monster Mark LaNeve, a man whose comments about GM&rsquo;s pricing strategy sound a lot like a snake-handler speaking in tongues, assured the press that &ldquo;all GM&rsquo;s brands will eventually be profitable.&rdquo; Bet your bottom dollar? Done. GM has mortgaged its future on baseless brand optimism.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Harsh.  We&#8217;ll see how it plays out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Farago: It&rsquo;s increasingly obvious that this necessary (not to say inevitable) &ldquo;restructuring&rdquo; will have to wait until GM goes under. The General&rsquo;s generals made that clear when they reacted to Turnaround King Jerry York&rsquo;s suggestion that GM should deep-six or sell their Saab and Hummer brands. GM execs dismissed the idea with the PR [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}