On 29 March 2012 15:38, Charles Matthews <[email protected]> wrote:
> I noticed that in the Bell Pottinger meltdown Lord Bell switched from > saying that the PR operatives had not actually broken the law (i.e. > minimalist on professional ethics), to a line that WP was really just too > complicated and fussy about it all. The latter is only convincing in the > absence of figures on the hourly rate being charged for whitewashing. > Almost by definition, service industries thrive on the principle that they > can charge for doing a good job: we mostly prefer not to cut our own hair. In the Bell Pottinger incident, Wikipedians and even Jimbo may have fussed - but it was the press who really took them to the cleaners. - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
