>I hate press releases more than most folks. A well-known
>Cypherpunks-dominated company used to issue press releases in which
>the press release would have commentary from the president, almost as
>if a reporter was writing the story.

        You probably know this already, as I assume it was being done 
during your time at intel, but many of those "quotes" never touched 
the lips of the person speaking them. The marketing people made them 
up, wrote the press release, and then showed it to the people being 
quoted.

>It seems to be the way reporters write their stories, not counting
>the first tier of journalists who can read between the lines.

        But aren't allowed to.


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