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Andrew Baron posted a link

World leaders enjoy 18-course banquet... then discuss how to solve global food crisis

July 8 at 3:44 pm - via Reshare - Link

alireza, Peter Stuifzand, xero and 14 other people liked this

that's just so wrong. - Alan Le

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"We live in a political world". Bob Dylan - George The Writer

http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/... - George The Writer

maybe just not the right people to solve the problem. take it for what it is. - Leonid Kozhukh

reeeeeeeeeeeeDICULOUS. I guess fixing hunger makes ya hungry. - Brian Carter

freaking hypocrites. - Chris Cavs

Did anyone stand up and walk out in protest? - Chad Myers

Did not a single soul anywhere in PR have an inkling of how irresistible this would be to headline writers around the world? - Tom Harrison

On the other hand, maybe these people are experts at eating, they really know how to get the good food. Maybe they are the best people to help others get the good food too. :D - Andrew Baron

You all sound like hypocrites to me. I guess you all starve yourself every day in protest of world hunger and the global food crisis. Would it have made any difference if they had Big Mac's and fries? This whole thread is a joke. At least they were discussing how to solve the global food crisis. All you all are doing is having this pathetic discussion. - Michael Tefft

I didn't have an 18 course meal to discuss world hunger. - Chris Cavs

Michael, not only is the irony irresistible- it might be argued that this demonstrates a lack of compassion... not they'd think better while fasting about it, because the brain needs sugar, but politicians in particular should know better about PR backlash and how it works. - Brian Carter

@Michael: Somehow I don't think they were actually discussing the global food crisis. And, for the record, I'm willing to be that most of us in this thread donate food and money to food banks and charities that get food to Africa, SE Asia, etc. Nice try at a tu quoque, but it didn't work. - Chad Myers

michael arrington posted a message on Twitter

“Department of Civil Disobedience: Google Should Deliver Its YouTube Data to Viacom in Paper Form http://tinyurl.com/6bs5gx”

July 3 at 3:22 pm - Link

Pat Hawks, Andrew Bashore, Mike L and 20 other people liked this

Lets see...if we cut down all the trees in Oregon maybe we'll have enough paper. - Devin Anderson

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That is absolutely hilarious! What rainforest would be cut down to deliver that? - Candace Holly

How about 3.5" floppy disks? - Atul Arora

being in Oregon please do we need the money and maybe we can drive the hippies out LOL - Cecil Sandus

LOL @ cecil :) - Hal Rottenberg via twhirl

nah you want floppy use the old 5 n halves... that ought to teach them btw love the name Rottenberg - Cecil Sandus

I think 100% post-consumer paper would be classy. (Are punch cards available on post-consumer?) - Dean Thompson

Eric Eldon posted a message

“I was recently informed that you and your company, VentureBeat, issued a press release about XXXXXXXXXX without any prior authorization from anyone within our organization. We demand an immediate retraction of this release as it is was not authorized, is not entirely representative of all the facts”

July 3 at 4:22 pm - Link

Mark Douglass, Gavin, Ryan Sholin and 13 other people liked this

simply hilarious. if only their lawyer sent a C&D. - Leonid Kozhukh

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the second part got cut off: "...and may interfere with an upcoming press release we are planning. Please let me know as soon as possible that you and VentureBeat will be in full compliance with our request." - Eric Eldon

Damn, I better stop writing up these press releases... - MG Siegler

also, we'd tried calling and emailing well advance, and they didn't respond. - Eric Eldon

you issued a pr about porn (xxx) ? nice! - Allen Stern

mg, press releases are fine. they just need to be authorized by the company beforehand. - Eric Eldon

hmm interesting.. - Fred Grott

Somebody get him a whamburger with some french cries. - Jake Swearingen

we just thought thigh master would enjoy the new round of press. it's been a while - MG Siegler

nothing like the july 4th weekend for celebrating the first amendment - Eric Eldon

lets see this pr - im checking all wires worldwide and haven't found any release with venturebeat on it - Allen Stern

post the name, stop being a wimp! :P - sean percival

@allen yeah, for a minute there i'd thought we'd opened up a VB PR arm, but i checked and it turns out we didn't. - Eric Eldon

@sean you might not think it from some of my tweets and friendfeed comments, but i do try to temper myself with a modicum of respect for those i disagree with :) - Eric Eldon

Ask them about the facts so you can update the news article. - Igor The Troll

@igor that's what i've already done. also, we had checked the news out enough that i'm not sure we got anything wrong. we shall see. - Eric Eldon

Eric, let us know how it goes, and if need to we can get other Bloggers behind this issue. This sounds like Cyber Bullying of a blogger by a company. It happens often now days. - Igor The Troll

its Miasole - sean percival

@igor thanks for the support. haven't heard back. @sean funny guess, but it's not that one. - Eric Eldon