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"This American Life" Retracts Story On Foxconn Factory That Makes Apple Products
Or, it's not uncommon to find that Chinese interpreters are sometimes hard to track down a year(s) after Daisey hired them. If you've ever travelled in the area (I'll hazard a guess, No), it's not unheard of.
I'd cut TAL some slack here: they did the best they could when presented with a situation that's within the realm of possibility. Then, once they realized Daisey was fabricating events out of whole cloth, they very aggressively pulled the story. I'll bet going forward, they'll be stricter when a situation comes up like this again.
Worst Company In America Round One: Apple Vs. Microsoft
Apple tries to save you from appearing on PeopleofWalmart.com, and you're angry?!
Really. There IS such a thing as "bad publicity".
Worst Company In America Round One: Apple Vs. Microsoft
It's so sad that Microsoft has become such an afterthought that they're no longer even seen as threatening.
...Unless you're trapped using their OS because your company's IS Department convinced your clueless boss that their Dockers™-wearing fiefdom is more important than your simply getting work done.
If nothing else, their getting caught red-handed (sigh, again) stealing others' ideas (Google's search results, in the latest (to date) example) earns their being Worst.
Apple Sues Amazon For Using The Phrase "App Store"
App Bizarre. App Market. App Oluza. App Emporium. App Shelf. App World. Apps Online. App Shack. Apps Droppin' Outta My Loins Like a Cage of Hamsters on Viagra.
You're Welcome, Amazon.
Oh, wait. You mean you expect someone else to not spend $100m to advertise "App Store" so you can ride their coat-tails for free? That they're gone through the expense and time of trademarking?
Darn. Poor Amazon.
Worst Company In America Round One: Time Warner Cable Vs. Facebook
As annoying as Hoodies are, I'm going to have to vote against government-installed regional quasi-monopolies instead.
I rely on the market to quash Facebook's popularity, much in the same way that AOL got p0wned after it tried to be all things to all people (except people expecting customer service and respect for privacy).
Family Drinks Milk Containing Dead Mouse For 3 Days, Sues Walmart
Doesn't Wal-Mart have a policy of always taking cases to court, never settling, as a way to intimidate people who think they've been wronged by them?
It seems that corporations want it both ways - clogging the courts unnecessarily when they should simply admit wrongdoing and settle, then send out their PR minions to hype up the "lawyers are money-seeking* shysters" message out of the other side of their mouth.
* Professionals seeking just compensation for their labors in a Capitalist market, in other words.
Fast Food Ads Are Often Opposite Of Reality
Those that are shrugging off the second, real picture with a "it's junk food - what did you expect?" are missing the point.
It's not that the real "food" is so visually unappealing.
It's that the promotional pictures used in ads is so completely divorced from reality. That is what Corporate controls, and that's where they fail.
Fast Food Ads Are Often Opposite Of Reality
How can something so fatty and salty be so lacking in volume and mass?
Couple Says Real Estate Agent Used Their Home For Sex
Geezus, people, don't have sloppy, sweaty, nakkid make-up sex in a rental open-house home.
That's what your local Ikea is for!
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"This American Life" Retracts Story On Foxconn Factory That Makes Apple Products
Tee hee.
If Fox News did with their stories what Ira Glass did with this episode of This American Life, Rupert Murdoch would need to launch 3 new news channels solely broadcasting factual corrections to what their one "news network" airs.
Can you name any other show or broadcast network that responded better than TAL?