anger

Call it opportunism, playing to weakness, or just marketing to pissed-off people: Targeting your competitor's customers after an unpopular move, one like that made by Netflix earlier this month, is kind of a no-brainer. NPR's Marketplace Tuesday called it "anger marketing." And Blockbuster knows...

The anger is so intense that pundits are now asking each other why we haven't seen enough rage from President Barack Obama. Americans who can't get the wildly emotional response they want from their president have taken the burden of emotion, more and more often, upon themselves.