Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt on Journalists

Re:Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt on Journalists by metaphorm on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @02:33PM (#8625810)

these aren't blurry lines. if Emil Michael feels like a journalist stepped over a line in reporting then he should have filed a civil suit. that's not what he suggested. he suggested utilizing millions of dollars of the resources of a billion dollar company to engage a campaign of systematic intimidation and harassment against journalists he didn't like.

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Re:Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt on Journalists by philwelch on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @05:27PM (#8626804)

Because this is what journalists do.

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Re:Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt on Journalists by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @01:29PM (#8631691)

Ah, yes. Two wrongs make a right. Of course they do.

Is that really your position? Or do you want somebody in the room to be a responsible grownup?

(Of course, preferably both sides would be grownups, but one side crawling into the gutter does not excuse the other side for also doing so.)

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Re:Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt on Journalists by philwelch on Thursday November 20, 2014 @03:24AM (#8634817)

I agree. But does it justify idly suggesting, in frustration, that one do so?

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