Twitter Journalism: New York Times, GE and the hazards of "tweeting the record straight"

Business Insider :: Henry Blodget 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 Blodget and his colleagues saw that GE was trying to set the record straight, they asked some specific questions of GE to determine whether the New York Times was wrong or whether GE was just trying to spin everyone. ...

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