Victim anonymity
The hoax press release which saw the share price of Whitehaven Coal drop is certainly enlivening today’s financial pages.
As Fairfax Media’s BRW puts it: “a number of news outlets fell for a fake press release purporting to announce ANZ’s withdrawal of support”.
And Fairfax Media’s Sydney Morning Herald says: “Still, it was good enough to leave some running with it”.
But which titles were within that”number of news outlets”? And who were the “some running with it”? Dr Mumbo was unable to find an answer among the acres of coverage from the Fairfax titles.
Its ok, these people are running our economy and therefore our lives.
Nothing could possiblie go wrong.
If any of them had been at work there probably would have been a few opinion pieces based on it. Though I see they’ve still managed a few hypocritical whines, even those that ran the story!