Comments on: Transcript: Steve Rubel vs. Forbes on CNBC

By: Frank Nesbitt

Frank Nesbitt — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 04:45:00 +0000

I was a subscriber to our-street.com, the subject of Dan Lyons trash piece “Attack of the Bloggers” and despite his attitude, Timothy Miles reports were impeccably detailed. To my knowledge no one ever challenged the facts he reported. The true villan in the piece is Greg Halpern, the CEO of Circle Group, a man who deceived his investors from before June until October about losing the Nestle contract. It was Miles’ investigative work combined with the constant pressuring of the message boards that finally forced Halpern to admit this crucial fact some 4 months after the fact. That Halpern pursued Miles to the degree he did, is evidence for strengthend anti SLAPP litigation laws. In his two years as publisher of our-street.com, Miles exposed stock fraud in 23 companies and over half of them has subsequently become the subject of regulatory action. He is the hero in this story. Dan Lyons’ piece is a disgrace to ethical journalism.

By: steven edward streight

steven edward streight — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:39:00 +0000

I want the morbid sectors of the MSM, and the vile corporations, to fear our WRATH.

We are not playing around. We hardcore bloggers truly have infinite quantities of hate to unleash on deserving targets. We do plan to destroy...the unethical, the con artist, the shoddy product, the lying CEO.

What's the Blog Revolution? It means the Voice of the Consumer shall now intimidate and punish rotten corporate or political culprits.

The trick we've all played was to coax businesses to blog...not so we could hear from them, but so we could bitch and question and challenge them.

Ha ha ha. It worked.

By: Dennis Howlett

Dennis Howlett — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 03:32:00 +0000

Steve’s FU’d big style on this. It will come back to warm his backside - blog flame style. He just doesn’t see it yet. Oh yes - blame the producers - funny format I don’t understand - not me - bollox.

By: SB

SB — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 02:17:00 +0000

Fires? At Belo? I have NO idea what you’re talking about.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 01:36:00 +0000

As any media trained PR person can tell you, you listen to all the comments and catch the nuances. You know that quite well, SB, because you have had to put out many BELO fires. And, judging from the latest accolades to 6A and Google, other’s advice should be taken with a box of salt.

You come prepared for the negative along with the positive, so you can have no excuses that Forbes was a blindsided guest segment switch (which I find hard to believe). The piece was likely a shredder piece to begin with, and the people weren’t prepared for every angle. And, that’s just bad for PR.