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

To: Snowshoe who wrote (1881)	5/5/1999 1:52:00 AM
From: Bill Ulrich	Respond to of 3795

<gg> Good luck with it! On another note, as with any press article, there's bound to be a slight inaccuracy. Being a reporter is difficult, I imagine, having to sift through various versions from a variety of sources. Of course, one can't please everybody, so reporting is probably a tough job. I'm particularly struck with this passage (the only one I quibble with): Business Wire demanded that the complete press release, which had been composed by the Webnode pranksters, be struck from the site. "They were giving us a very hard time," says Baron Tamraz. The Webnoders eventually relented on April 18, replacing the original release with a page poking more fun at Business Wire. As was explained earlier, we took the initial BW reference off right away, and didn't give them a hard time. They wanted control over more, however—our originally authored content. If they have an issue with the BW reference, that's fine—we were happy to fix it; but the content is ours, so if that's perceived as a 'hard time', well, so be it. We complied that afternoon with the reasonable portion of their demands, not the unreasonable part.