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FedEx responds to The New York Times article from Nov. 17, 2019
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Re: FedEx responds to The New York Times article from Nov. 17, 2019
#12Damn, can’t believe Fred Smith is still running FedEx.
Re: FedEx responds to The New York Times article from Nov. 17, 2019
#13Response to this: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/17/business/how-fedex-cut-it...
Too bad it's impossible to read because of multiple overlays. I guess I'll take FedEx's word for it.
Re: FedEx responds to The New York Times article from Nov. 17, 2019
#14Expected behavior coming from New York Times. Good on Fedex for pushing back.
Care to elaborate?
NYT and a few other papers are pretty much running in campaign mode, floating trial balloons of policy ideas of candidates they favor if not outright pushing forward a narrative which aligns with the direction one campaign or another is following. So stories align to support the narrative.
The 2020 narrative for the Democratic Party is again wealth envy and how all the woes can be solved if X just pays their fair share. The easy villains are billionaires and large well known companies. After all it is damn easy to make numbers appear however you want; see the recent claim Amtrak might make a profit which is only true if you don't look hard.
we are already deep into the election cycle for the next President and Congress so you must use a heavy filter on stories you read on the NYT and even here. you can pretty much toss any story that gets around to mentioning one candidate or another.
Re: FedEx responds to The New York Times article from Nov. 17, 2019
#15Response to this: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/17/business/how-fedex-cut-it...
Too bad it's impossible to read because of multiple overlays. I guess I'll take FedEx's word for it.
FedEx didn't even dispute any of the article. They're just doing some whataboutism.
Edit: Can someone downvoting point out where I'm wrong? They say the NYTimes distorted the truth, but give no indication of how.
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Re: FedEx responds to The New York Times article from Nov. 17, 2019
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
You’d think they’d have their house in order before besmirching someone else... good on FedEx calling them out.
Journalists and editors should not let the business practices of the paper they work for prevent them from investigating and publishing stories. This is a feature , not a bug.
The story is inconsistent - we have tax policy to encourage innovation and investment, the new york times supports this style of policy. They call out people who actually then take the government up on the incentives.
The critique of the tax cut also didn't make a lot of sense.
It's just a poor story - it's unclear what it's objective is.
Re: FedEx responds to The New York Times article from Nov. 17, 2019
#20This statement is a farce. They claim the story is factually incorrect, but provide no corrections. They point out the NYT does the same thing, but that does not contradict anything in the NYT article, and has no bearing on what they did. Finally, they yell "debate me!" but rather than proposing a debate on the facts in dispute, instead want to debate federal tax policy which neither controls.