User:Multiliteralist/Summit of Spin/Smalltenna

Smalltenna is a manufacturer of smaller dish antennas. They have been in danger of losing their business because of the obvious benefits of large antennas, and are now fighting back, basing the attack on the news linked below. If you start with any of these articles, mention and link it in the list.

• Marcia Dunn (AP) "Space technology thingy" Google News, April 6, 2010

1. an UnNews piece about how, with a smaller dish antenna for the space shuttle mentioned in the real world newspiece above, the crew would have no trouble sending their report home
2. a mainspace article about small antennas and their general benefits. An image of a GSM phone with a ridiculously large antenna to underline the point, that sort of thing. How a large antenna has fallen down somewhere and crushed stuff (real life old reports can be used here if found)
3. counterspin: UnNews piece about how someone has sued a TV company for selling him an antenna far too small to receive messages from Orion
4. counterspin: someone, quite sensibly and unexpectedly, explains in a letter to UnNews how a smaller antenna wouldn't have enabled the crew to transmit any messages back home at all. UnNews could discredit the letter right away, in the same newspiece.
5. a report on how there is no life on Orion (this could be paid for by the residents of Orion {a new client? Intertwined storylines possible here} who are planning to invade Earth soonish. This could come out in a later article, through some twist.)
6. a mainspace article on why antennas need to be larger and larger to appear more manly
7. next step?