The tone of Sarah Lacy's article is irrelevant to me. It is the suggestion that a company executive would consider lashing out at a journalist this way that I f

The tone of Sarah Lacy's article is irrelevant to me. It is the suggestion that a company executive would consider lashing out at a journalist this way that I find disturbing. How about looking at it this way: even if everyone has had a moment of wanting to "wring someone's neck" as you say down-thread, I don't expect company executives to actually suggest that they might hire some goons to go rough up someone who negatively reviewed their product. An executive who says something like that in public is an idiot, and I personally would seriously reconsider whether I want that person to be in charge of anything at my company, or represent my company in public ever again.