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To: mod who wrote (11259)	7/12/1999 5:04:00 PM
From: Andrew H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 30916

>>I must have missed that apology, can you give me a link?<< I must have missed it myself. Still looking. In Message 10471799 she does admit she made a mistake. In Message 10472641 she claims to have apologized. Maybe the apology was in the post she had deleted?

To: mod who wrote (11259)	7/12/1999 9:06:00 PM
From: Kevin Podsiadlik	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 30916

He wrote an article that said they never returned his call. The article was published 11 hours after he now admits they DID return his call. Therefore this article was factually incorrect. Why didn't he change the article before it was published? This is the internet, press deadlines can be changed up to the minute something is published. Or once Herb got into the office and realized his mistake, why not correct the article, as is often done? For starters, it wouldn't do to modify the old article once it was up (and at 3:30am Pacific time I dare say Greenberg wasn't yet awake). Anyone who read the non-updated version would surely miss out on any changes after the fact. So the only other choice would be to publish an "extra" article to say that he had called back. I can think of two possible reasons why Greenberg would not do this. 1) The simple mention of the fact that Lerner did call back was not worth a column in itself. Actually arranging and executing a phone interview may well have taken until it was too late to write it up before the market close, so he decided it could wait until morning. 2) He might have been able to arrange and execute all of that in time to get an "extra" column out, but after checking out the mountain of venomous email he received from all his fans among IDTC shareholders, he may have decided it was more important to get started forming some sort of response to the charges being leveled at him. I know this is the age of the Internet and all, but 36 hours isn't forever. Yet.