WHO’S FULL OF CRAP? GE, The New York Times, And The Hazards Of “Tweeting The Record Straight”
by ilene - March 29th, 2011 12:56 pm
Courtesy of Henry Blodget at The Business Insider

The New York Times is full of it. Just ask my PR team.
We spent much of this afternoon sparring with GE’s public affairs division on Twitter over a New York Times report that GE paid no US taxes last year.
GE had taken to Twitter to blast the New York Times for "misleading" everyone about this fact.
So, naturally, when we saw that GE was trying to set the record straight, we asked some specific questions of GE--because we wanted to determine whether the New York Times was wrong or whether GE was just trying to spin everyone.
Either was fine with us, by the way — especially after New York Times editor Bill Keller’s latest lecture this weekend about why the New York Times is great and everyone else sucks.
![]() NYT’s KELLER: "We believe in verification rather than assertion" |
Bill Keller’s message in his latest lecture was "We believe in verification rather than assertion."
So when we got a tweet from GE …