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Sorry, to say that ,but if a journalist is able to destroy your friends business, maybe the business wasn't that valid to begin with? Why did nobody trust it th

Sorry, to say that ,but if a journalist is able to destroy your friends business, maybe the business wasn't that valid to begin with? Why did nobody trust it that much, that a simple press release on the start-ups page would counter the journalist's arguments? Your polemic rant does nothing to explain, helps nobody - not even your friend. Not one fact in this piece only name-calling. You could have taken the stand, talking about what said journalist wrote - and why it is wrong. Could have explained the facts. You could even have given your friend the opportunity, to counter what said journalist wrote and tell the facts, as they are from his point of view. But you just took the easy way. Ranting, name-calling, denouncing a journalist (who may have done everything wrong, but I can't know this), without showing prove that anything you say is true.

vincentleeuwen 13y ago
I believe that if you need to upload a press release on your Website it's far too late. The damage has been done at that point. If you don't even fact-check on these kind of posts that destroy people's companies & lives you're just not worthy.
- sdoering 13y ago
  Well. I am the last person, to believe in the integrity of most so called journalists. My problem is, that the blogpost did nothing to answer any question at all. What did the so called journalist write and what were the "real" facts. And so on. It was nothing but a rant, shaming and name-calling a journalist. Nothing more. And believe me a lot of companies young or old, big or small have had bad press. Oftentimes total lies by so called journalists and oftentimes rightly so. But non the less even the worst press did not kill every single one of them. So declaring this journalist to be solely responsible, without telling the facts is just trolling, ranting and blowing off steam - and does contribute nothing to a grown up discussion about ethics of journalism and what journalism should be like.

vincentleeuwen 13y ago

I believe that if you need to upload a press release on your Website it's far too late. The damage has been done at that point. If you don't even fact-check on these kind of posts that destroy people's companies & lives you're just not worthy.

sdoering 13y ago
Well. I am the last person, to believe in the integrity of most so called journalists. My problem is, that the blogpost did nothing to answer any question at all. What did the so called journalist write and what were the "real" facts. And so on. It was nothing but a rant, shaming and name-calling a journalist. Nothing more. And believe me a lot of companies young or old, big or small have had bad press. Oftentimes total lies by so called journalists and oftentimes rightly so. But non the less even the worst press did not kill every single one of them. So declaring this journalist to be solely responsible, without telling the facts is just trolling, ranting and blowing off steam - and does contribute nothing to a grown up discussion about ethics of journalism and what journalism should be like.