Attack of the Killer MS Flacks

October 30, 2000 7:39 PM

Attack of the Killer MS Flacks Has anyone seemed to notice that shortly after the Wall Street Journal broke the story about the Microsoft hackers that the NYT became a voice for MS when they first claimed that no source code was stolen and next when they seemed to remember they tracked the entire attack for all 12 days.
posted by bkdelong (2 comments total)

I think it's a combination of Markoff/Schwartz poo-pooing that they didn't get the story first and that MS didn't call them when they found out the Journal was doing a story and give the NYT their version....but also that there's rumors flying and more to the story than we may know.
posted by bkdelong at 7:44 PM on October 30, 2000

Yeah, I can see it now, some MS flack saying: See?! THIS is why we UCITA!
posted by black8 at 8:36 PM on October 30, 2000