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Pastimes : Business Wire Falls for April Fools Prank, Sues FBNers -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter V who wrote (3603)	12/7/1999 5:16:00 PM
From: Janice Shell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3795

He seems to be quite concerned about "sitting still", doesn't he? "I'm happy with the result. We got what we wanted," says Lorry I. Lokey, president of the San Francisco wire service. "There's no way we're going to have our future jeopardized by this type of operation. We're not going to sit still and take these kinds of insults." Business Wire's Mr. Lokey says he's not familiar with the Uniprime case, but says the wire service carefully screens press releases before they're distributed. "We don't just sit still. I can tell you that anyone in the future that moves a false story on our wire is going to get sued and we're going to win it," says Mr. Lokey. "We probably do as well or better a job of weeding out this stuff than The Wall Street Journal does," he says. This interests me. Does it mean they're not gonna sue UPCA? Hell, we tried to explain to them where they'd gone wrong with that one, didn't we? Is it okay if I say, IMO naturally!, that Lorry looks exactly like Jack Nicholson as the Joker? Does anyone still have that page bookmarked? HEY LEMME COPYRIGHT THIS!!©