Fine letter, young man! Send it.
You've encouraged me to post a copy of my own unprofessional outburst
sent earlier today...
SUBJECT: Eric Savitz, "Plugged In," Dec. 1, 1997
Please take Mr. Eric Savitz out behind the copying machine and beat the crap out of him for calling himself a reporter and soiling the reputation of your newspaper.
In asserting that the Sony/Fuji proposed HiFD storage device "looks like an Iomega killer," he touts a product that doesn't even exist! I wonder if he saw a working model demo...anything as advanced, say, as Iomega's Clik product that so annoyed him. While Savitz did try to cover himself slightly by sprinkling words like "potential," "eventually" and "if all goes according to plan," in his piece, he clearly sees HiFD as the new standard in removable storage. The market will decide, if and when HiFD makes it to market.
Mr. Savitz is, of course, entitled to any degree of bias that his editors may allow. However, in this case, I believe he has gone beyond bias in a willful and malicious attempt to drive down the price of Iomega stock. You may want your attorneys to review your liability for injury to Iomega stockholders as a result of the Savitz article. They may want to begin by noting that HiFD is described not as a "Zip killer," but as an "Iomega killer." <eom> |
