June 12, 2006
Ink by the Barrel
President Clinton's best quote in two terms was "Never pick a fight with those who buy ink by the barrel." The PR department at General Motors is learning this.
I don't believe I've ever used the word "Kafkaesque," but I challenge you to read this mail exchange and call it anything else.
The NYTimes publishes a Thomas Friedman OpEd that accuses GM of being on the side of the terrorists for promoting SUVs. GM responds to this attack and encounters the letter length police at the Times, ultimately boiling down to a fight over the phrase "What rubbish!"
Hat-tip: Everyday Economist, who points out 'The newspaper with 'all the news fit to print' apparently could not find room for the letter or an op-ed response."
Media and Blogging Posted by jk at June 12, 2006 10:13 AM
The problem is not that the Times can afford more ink, but that GM wouldn't know what to do with it in the first place. Times editorialists are masters at deception, distraction and distortion. Poor little ol' GM only knows how to bend over backwards trying to please the environannies the Times caters to, only to be kicked in the teeth for their trouble.
See my comment above under AlexC's 'Cheap Oil' post. GM will have the last laugh (as long as they don't forget how to make cars that run on petroleum.)
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