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Re:We Shouldn’t Be Surprised at the Theranos Fraud by monkeypizza on Thursday June 07, 2018 @12:04AM (#17253186)
If you don't give him credit for that, what would you give him credit for? If he stopped Carreyrou, you'd obviously blame him. Therefore in order for your judgement to be meaningful, you have to admit that him allowing Carreyrou to go ahead and topple the house of cards was a good action. Otherwise no matter what he does you judge him negatively - and in that case, your decision is predetermined and not of informational value for anyone.
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Re:We Shouldn’t Be Surprised at the Theranos Fraud by shub on Thursday June 07, 2018 @03:44AM (#17254024)
Refraining from being horrible is not the same thing as doing something good.
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Re:We Shouldn’t Be Surprised at the Theranos Fraud by mseebach on Thursday June 07, 2018 @07:10AM (#17254791)
No, but refraining from taking an action that's well within your power to take, possibly with minimal consequences, and which you have a strong incentive to take, is sign of integrity. I don't know if that's "getting credit", but having integrity is clearly a good thing.

On the other hand, it could simply be shrewd businessmanship. It's not like it was the reporting that made Theranos unviable. The tech would never work, it's just a question of time before the walls come crashing down. It's probably illegal for Murdoch to sit on this information while trying to sell his investment on to someone else (at the very least, inviting some nasty lawsuits).

Murdoch might very well have thought "Oh well, the investment is gone, I'll be damned if it isn't my newspaper to be the one to break this juicy news".

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Re:We Shouldn’t Be Surprised at the Theranos Fraud by mhneu on Thursday June 07, 2018 @08:49AM (#17255274)
Murdoch had a short term incentive but a very large long term disincentive. If he tried to suppress this story he would have gotten caught because FDA and Walgreens care about facts. Not to mention that the story itself would drive readership.

Looks to me that Murdoch acted exactly according to his long term goals.

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Re:We Shouldn’t Be Surprised at the Theranos Fraud by zeth___ on Thursday June 07, 2018 @04:30AM (#17254240)
Look at all the people I have not murdered today. Yes yesterday was a bit of a bad day with that school and everything but I should get some credit for today.
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Re:We Shouldn’t Be Surprised at the Theranos Fraud by Cthulhu_ on Thursday June 07, 2018 @04:55AM (#17254336)
It's almost like the nice guy thing. My times I respected women stamp card is almost full!
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Re:We Shouldn’t Be Surprised at the Theranos Fraud by jacquesm on Thursday June 07, 2018 @07:23PM (#17261264)
You don't give people credit for what should be normal. You give them credit for doing something over and beyond normal.
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Re:We Shouldn’t Be Surprised at the Theranos Fraud by spurcell93 on Thursday June 07, 2018 @01:25AM (#17253485)
.... Uh. Yeah. That's why the poster did give him credit.
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