JT started his presentations/communications efforts the same way, Pohl did it the year before (The Wallstreet Transcript, wallstreeet??? etc.).

For us shareholders in the know, they didn't bring up anything new - and I doubt "new" investors were attracted by these interviews while in the same time the shareprice was tanking (remember July through August the SP had its year's low) and NOTHING indicated a buy recommendation.

I remember writing a mail to Ken from Hawks, why JT made this interviews at this time, as long he couldn't say anything new (never received a valid answer) they were useless in my view as a communications pro.

BUT: it seemed JT was speeding up the communications and only WHY Patriot seemed to be in the long desired activity mode started in August, it was felt like a "big misterious event", as the presentation in New York and another interview were cancelled. 

But why did we care? Because we were informed BEFORE, these interviews/presentation would take place (something you wouldn't necessarely have to do in professional communications). And in the moment these events were cancelled, we all were "sure", something would happen.

From a professional communications point of view this was a great way to create a "black box".