Why You Shouldn't Piss Off The Press
from the they-get-back-at-you dept
It may be fun and easy to make fun of the press (I do it all the time, after all), but watch out when they bite back. Here's an amusing column from the San Jose Mercury News making fun of HP's Carly Fiorina for blaming lazy reporters for all the negative reports about the HP-Compaq merger (which the Register has properly dubbed HPaq). The writer says he'd look into this laziness stuff, but he's far too lazy to bother.
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