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If the mailman was also the editor of the local newspaper and was using his knowledge of your subscriptions to source stories about you, that'd be much more in
by brandnewlow 13y ago
If the mailman was also the editor of the local newspaper and was using his knowledge of your subscriptions to source stories about you, that'd be much more in line with what was going on here.
The problem is that Bloomberg sells data services to tens of thousands of companies while also running a media company that sells reporting to news organizations. You can't mix those two and expect people to be happy about it.
- UVB-76 13y agoI may be wrong, but the impression I got from this article was not so much that Bloomberg reporters were using the data to source stories about their clients, so much as using the data to connect with their clients and use them as sources. Whereas reporters from other news organizations would have had to ring around and fight to speak to a relevant source, Bloomberg reporters had direct contact details at their fingertips, as well as information telling them exactly when they are logged in at their Bloomberg terminals.