Broken Press

668 examples of press incompetence

Posted by @gruber@mastodon.social

“I’ve got an exclusive for you. We’re offering Google $34.5 billion to buy Chrome.”

“You’re not talking to anyone else?”

“Nope, exclusive for the Journal. I definitely do not have a colleague sitting next to me on the phone with Bloomberg as we speak.”

Screenshots of WSJ and Bloomberg, both reporting on Perplexity’s stunt offer to “buy” Google Chrome, with the WSJ claiming “Exclusive”. The stories were published at 11:30am and 11:38am respectively.
Screenshots of WSJ and Bloomberg, both reporting on Perplexity’s stunt offer to “buy” Google Chrome, with the WSJ claiming “Exclusive”. The stories were published at 11:30am and 11:38am respectively.