Financial Times writer slams Hewlett Packard over advertising threat
When The Financial Times wrote a few words on Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman, the company’s marketing chief, Henry Gomez, was upset by the article’s tone. He threatened to stop placing he company’s ads with the newspaper, warning that “FT management should consider the impact of unacceptable biases on its relationships with advertisers.”
Lucy Kellaway wrote back:
My piece was not biased and I fear you misunderstand our business model. It is my editors’ steadfast refusal to consider the impact of stories on advertisers that makes us the decent newspaper we are. It is why I want to go on working here. It is why the FT goes on paying me.
Over to you, Daily Telegraph.
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Posted: 17th, February 2016 | In: Money, Reviews Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
