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Not really sure what you mean by ‘get away with’. Journalists are obliged to ask companies to comment and spokespeople make those comments. The spokesman doesn’
by dan-robertson 4y ago
Not really sure what you mean by ‘get away with’. Journalists are obliged to ask companies to comment and spokespeople make those comments. The spokesman doesn’t get interviewed or grilled and it is generally left to the reader to interpret the comment and decide if the spokesperson has ‘gotten away with it’.
Do you have the same reaction whenever an organisation has a scandal and they ‘don’t want to comment on an ongoing investigation’?
- deanCommie 4y agoYes. When Donald Trump says something like "As we all know Sleepy Joe Biden eats babies for breakfast", reputable journalistic sources will print it, and will have a sentence somewhere down the line that says "According to the FBI, there is no evidence that Joe Biden consumes human flesh. Likewise, when a tech C-suite exec makes vague references to macroeconomic conditions, a reputable journalist would include a sentence like "Although rising interest rates have dampened venture capitalist investment into new startups hurting the growth and creation of billion-dollar valuations, the Big Tech companies including Meta have demonstrated continued growth and record profits quarter after quarter, yet still chose to undertake a policy of layoffs self-referencing each other as justification."
- skybrian 4y agoIt seems like the argument that it's false is harder than that to make. Could changes in direction, including expense cutting and layoffs, have anything to do with renewed profits? There's more to making an convincing argument than putting two contrasting things side by side and letting the audience assume it proves something.
- Redoubts 4y agoSorry, that sounds closer to stenography than journalism. > Do you have the same reaction whenever an organisation has a scandal and they ‘don’t want to comment on an ongoing investigation’? Yeah, kinda