Motorola resurrects Sir Run Run Shaw

On March 6 I wrote that Motorola, in an effort to advertise the products it provided to a hospital in Hong Kong, killed off the hospital's prime benefactor, Sir Run Run Shaw, identifying him as deceased in one of its advertisements.  My guess is that the author, figuring that no one born in 1907 would still be around today, assumed that Sir Run Run was deceased. 

Sir Run Run was not then deceased.  As of this morning he is still making progress toward his 102nd birthday, which comes around in October.  I checked back on the press release, and found that Motorola has brought Sir Run Run back to life: the word "late" has been removed, so that the hospital is now described as having been "financed by the Hong Kong industrialist Sir Run Run Shaw" instead of as having been "named after the late Hong Kong industrialist Sir Run Run Shaw." 

I don't know whether Mr. Shaw prefers to be recognized for having financed the hospital over being honored by having it named after him, but he's no doubt happy at being revived by Motorola.  If the market for cell phones doesn't improve, Mr. Shaw's life expectancy might well exceed Motorola's.

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