As to your consociate scionist only an idiot would condone an act of fraud, even the webnode three knew to settle out of court!
Things are never in context in SI-land. One has to put things in context. When one claims the fraud was a joke, it should be put into context. The POINT of the joke was that BusinessWire could release anything, true or false, and not be accountable. The WebFraud3 was demanding accountability out of BW and played their little prank. Left at that, someone might chuckle. Who knows. Lets say their humor is much more sophisticated than ours and that's very funny material.
In context though, we see Jeff Mitchell, 1/3 of the WebFraud three also owned and operated an website profiling junk issues under the guise that the profiles were news. On Jeff's website (ViaVision.com), for instance, "news" was released about junk issues like Henry Lanham's PRVT, a stock promotion run out of Vietnam. The humorists never demanded Jeff be accountable for the news HIS "newswire" released. In fact, when confronted about the junk issues offered on ViaVision, Jeff's excuse was it was "news" and he had no control over "news".
So, the BW joke rapidly loses its laughs when we see 1/3 of the WebFraud3 doing exactly what the brunt of the joke, BusinessWire, was doing, releasing "news" about junk issues w/o any accountability for what "news" they release.
You add to this scionist's company being used in "partnership" PR's w/ numerous junk issues in stockupticks.com stock promotions and who the Chicago Tribune reoported paid Janice Shell for services and you see the joke is really on the investor. The scambusters supposedly playing these jokes to reveal evil are themselves operating similar newswires, involved in their own stock promotions and decieving the public in a grander scale, IMO, than BW. |
