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I'm just a humble twitterer but gee I think that maybe making a press push out of refuting, in point by point claims, the successful talking points of an obviously beloved editorial personality as your crisis management press release seems like a bad idea petersterne/1121850342520623105
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Like even if Gardner was 100% right & Angwin was 100% wrong--a thing which seems highly unlikely!--read the room. Trying to paint Angwin as bad guy in this is already a lost battle. That's just strategy but also wow does this look petty & provide evidence Angwin was in the right.
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This is getting into so-bad-it-becomes-a-case-study territory.
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get thee to a crisis manager who can train you not to call: most of your staff quitting, universal censure by your peers, and reconsideration of your funding 'some bullshit' right after publically repudiating your former professional partner. Chronotope/1122113671960907776
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Even worse, framing the dustup around The Markup as "some twitter bullshit" makes him look fully unaware of what is going on, how the world works, or that anything wrong occurred. It even works against his statement that they are aware and sorry they mistreated newsroom staff.